Political Quotes

“One of the things that we, a couple of things that we campaigned on heavily during our election process, were the line-item veto and the balanced budget amendment. And I used to say, after I had signed this Contract With America, one of the hidden pearls in this contract, not necessarily each and every item might be passed, but that we are calling forth from everyone that is in Congress a vote. We are making them vote up or down on each one of these issues. And if an item did not pass, then the people back in the district would understand that and how their Congressman voted. And they would have the opportunity next election to decide if they wanted to retain that Congressman. But everywhere I went, the people back in west Tennessee felt that these two items, the line-item veto and the balanced budget amendment, were required because of the forced discipline. I have heard that term used an awful lot up here, but I am convinced that not only at the State level but at the Federal level, we need to force discipline by law. But we have to balance the budget.”