Political Quotes

“I personally do not care whether it is a Democrat or Republican bill. What we have got in this country is a $6 trillion debt. We are paying a billion dollars a day interest, and all we have asked for is a plan of some kind to get us out of this hole before we pass another $450 billion authority to borrow money. If anybody thinks that is unreasonable, I would like to debate that point. There is not a business or a family listening tonight anywhere in this country that would run their own business like we are running the Nation's business, borrowing another $450 billion with absolutely no plan. The plan we are operating under does not balance for the next decade without using Social Security trust funds. Now, if anybody can convince the American people that that is a reasonable approach to this Nation's financial problems, I would like to talk to them because it is absolutely, I tell you what you can do. You can bamboozle people a little while, but the American public is not stupid by any stretch of the imagination, and they know that year after year of red ink is sooner or later going to catch up with us and with our children.”