Political Quotes

“Well, I am going to have to go, but I want to thank you all again for letting an old guy like me pretend I am 30-something again. It is a real thrill to do that, because your generation, I have two children in their 30s, and I have two grandchildren, one on the way. And when I see this country in an unsustainable financial downward spiral, I feel great remorse from my generation's standpoint, because we are not doing what our forebears did. To allow a situation to go on where there is no accountability, where Congress is not asking any administration, this has nothing to do with politics, it has to do with good business principles in the public sector, which I think all citizens of this country not only expect but deserve, and that is, this Congress ought to, at a minimum, be able to tell the American people what happened to the money. And they are not even asking this administration. And if they did, they couldn't tell them. That is just plain wrong. And these bills, I hope some of our Republican colleagues will sign on. It seems to me like they would want to audit the books as much as we do. I mean, I just hope that this is the first step of accountability into the public sector so that when we get an audit from any Department, the auditors can identify what happened to the money, whether or not the program is working, and so we don't get these disclaimers that say, everything you are about to read in this audit we have no idea of. We don't know whether it is true or not.…”