Political Quotes

“Well, I thank you, you fellas. The 30-something Group is rendering great service to our country. It is about the only way I know to turn the clock back and be youthful again is to associate with the 30-something hour. I want to speak for all of us who admire your work here and thank you very much for what you do to try to alert the American public and your generation to what I believe will be disastrous consequences for our country and our citizens if we continue on the course that we have embarked on for the last 60 months or so. I wish I was making up what I am about to say, because when I tell people about the financial mismanagement and irresponsibility here in Washington that has gone on for the last few years and is continuing, people have a hard time comprehending that. When I tell them that the GAO, the General Accounting Office, reports that 19 of 24 Federal agencies can't produce an acceptable audit, in other words they can't tell you what happened to the money that the Congress involuntarily removed from the taxpayers' pockets and appropriated to the administration, 19 of 24 Federal agencies can't tell you what happened to it. They can't produce an audit. People are amazed. It is a function of the Congress to oversee the monies appropriated to any administration, and this Congress has abdicated that constitutional responsibility to the American people. I mean, no private enterprise in this country would tolerate what all of us are tolerating in our public lives.…”