Political Quotes

“I am one of the Blue Dog members on the Committee on Ways and Means, and I tell you, we want as large a tax cut as is responsible and consistent with protecting Social Security and Medicare and retiring the national debt, not to mention the needs of military, education and agriculture. The way you do that is you get a budget. I know of no prudent business person in this land who would make a critical operating decision in his company without a budget. And, you know, people are overtaxed. Let me give my colleagues one reason why. Look at the debt of this country. Every person in this country is responsible for $20,300 of debt. For a family of four, that is $82,000 worth of debt that they have on them. Retiring the debt is one of the priorities of the Blue Dogs. We think there is room to do both. But the way you do that and to make sure that you are in a position to do both is to have a budget first and then you get to where we want to go with the tax cut.”