Political Quotes

“I came here from Tennessee in 1988; and when I came here, people said, John, please, if you get elected, go up there and do something about this horrendous national debt. We are borrowing more money every year as a people than we can pay back in our lifetimes, and we want you all to do something about it. Please, if you go up there, concentrate on retiring the debt and living within our means. Now, we have tried to do that and I have been here, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm) has been here longer than I have, and this is hard. This is not easy. The easiest thing that anybody who seeks political office can do is to promise a road or a bridge or a dam and promise to cut taxes all at the same time. That is what we hear on the stump, and this is really tough work that we are trying to do here as Blue Dogs because we are doing something that is oftentimes not politically expedient. We do things that we hope are in the best interest of the country and our children that are not maybe politically popular today.”