Political Quotes

“I just listened to the President, and my heart is still pounding. I was very disappointed to hear what the President just had to say in front of a pep rally--something very unbecoming of where we are at this moment. It is my understanding that most of the tax issues have been worked out--should have been worked out on the floor in regular order. I think most of the Senate is very distressed that we are in a situation where the negotiations are taking place all of this time and it is not being done through regular order, but that is the way things are today in the Senate. But I just heard the President say that in dealing with the sequester that was put in place to reduce spending--it was part of a $2.1 trillion package to reduce spending so that we could raise the debt ceiling back in August of 2011. No one ever thought we would end up in this place where the sequester would be enacted, but it was done so that we would reduce spending. I notice my friend from Arizona is here. He has been one of the best there is to focus on defense spending and how it should be done, and I know he would like to see things happen in a very different way in that regard. But I just heard the President say that the way we are going to deal with this sequester is in a balanced way, through revenues and through reduced spending.…”