Political Quotes

“I think what people want us to do is to act reasonably to try to make a fair Tax Code, to try to raise the revenues that are necessary to buy the aircraft carriers, and the planes and the tanks we need for our defense, to try to do some of the things that we spend money on in terms of helping all of us as American citizens whether it is roads and bridges and infrastructure, water and sewer systems, those things that we need to do as a government that private enterprise cannot do, and I think in the end they want us to behave reasonably. Now it is hard for me to understand why a bill that forces us, all of us, not just Members of Congress, all of us as citizens, to either, 1, say it is everyone for himself or herself from now until the year 2002, as this new code that we do not know what is going to look like is rewritten; or, 2, if we cannot come to closure, and, my lord, it is hard enough to reach a consensus on tinkering with it around here, and I am on the Committee on Ways and Means, I see it; if we cannot come to consensus, then what happens? Nobody knows.”