Political Quotes

“I come here to the floor tonight to talk about something that is not very pleasant to think about, much less talk about, but as President Jimmy Carter once said, the highest office in this land of ours is that of citizen, because the citizen makes the determination as to the course that our country's leaders take. All of us are citizens, and therefore, all of us ought to be aware of what I consider to be a grave and growing danger, maybe second only to terrorism in our country tonight. The issue that I am referring to is our Nation's overwhelming Federal debt. I do not believe most of our citizens, the highest officeholders in this land, realize just how bad this debt and deficit is and how much it is rapidly deteriorating in terms of our Nation's financial balance sheet. We have embarked for the last 4 years on an unprecedented and unsustainable borrowing binge that is going to place our citizens in hock not only from the standpoint of paying ever-increasing taxes just to service the debt, much like we do our credit card debt, but what we are doing to ourselves, to our country and to our children and grandchildren.”