Political Quotes

“I would agree, but whether I agree or not, I think the facts speak for themselves. Last year at that time we were told there was money as far as the eye could see. We had a $5 trillion surplus. That did not come true. The budget that the President submitted shows red ink for the next 10 years. Once this interest figure gets up 20, 25 percent, I have never seen a country that was proud, free and broke. There is not one on the face of the earth, and we are going broke under these policies, and people are going to begin to realize that I think that, unlike maybe public perception now, at least when it comes to the Blue Dog Coalition, there are some Democrats around here that are more fiscally and financially responsible than all the Republicans who want to tell my colleagues, as they have, we are going to cut taxes, increase spending, but they do not say more borrowing, and more borrowing means more interest, and more interest means more taxes from now on, forever.”