Political Quotes

“That may be an incomplete count, but nevertheless the Senator and his staff counted 191 times where the word ``balanced'' has been used. As the Senator from Alabama very fittingly pointed out, there is nothing balanced about this budget. In fact, this budget doesn't balance in 10 years; it doesn't ever balance. The other thing I would suggest to my colleague from Alabama is that in the course of the debate, it has become clear to me--and I think clear to anybody who has been observing this--that the so-called balanced approach they advocate is anything but balanced. We have a $1.5 trillion tax increase. We have a spending increase that is at 62 percent over the course of the next decade--a net spending increase notwithstanding their assertions that somehow this is a reduction in spending. The whole idea that this is ``a balanced approach'' strikes me as a big charade. I think that is what this entire budget is. That is why all the editorial pages across the country, including those from newspapers that are not considered the least bit conservative--many of us in the Chamber who are on this side of the aisle expect most of the newspapers around the country and their editorial pages to attack Republicans and Republican budgets--have absolutely eviscerated in their editorial comments the budget that has been put forth by the Senate Democrats. I think it is simply because it is anything but balanced.…”