Political Quotes

“I would encourage the majority leader to bring his bill up here and let us vote on it if it is that good. The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Portman) has worked well with us on the committee. I do not have any quarrel with the criticism of the present system. But when Mr. Churchill one time was asked how was his wife, his response was, ``Compared to what?'' We do not have the ``what'' here. If my colleagues want to seriously work on tax reform and the code, I think they will find many Members over here ready, willing and able to pitch in. But to go about this matter scrapping something is like a businessperson saying, Look, we don't like your sales or distribution system that gives your company the revenue with which you do business; we're going to scrap that on a date certain in 2 years, and we'll have the board of directors figure out what we're going to replace it with. Nobody would do that in the real world. Not one single person that I know of would say, We don't know what we're going to do. We're going to do something, hopefully. What if we cannot get a consensus on the flat tax? The gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Linder), who spoke earlier, has a bill, a sales tax. What if the Congress in that day cannot come up with a consensus? What are we going to do, have a continuing resolution on the code? That will make a lot of sense to Wall Street.…”