Political Quotes

“I am going to support an increase in funding for the FAA and airline safety. That is not really at issue. I just want to say, though, that this has been a tax that we have reinstated before. This is reinstating it this time, it has been reinstated before. The last time we reinstated it, we did so with a corresponding tax cut so that it was not really a net tax increase. That is all we are asking for this time, is a corresponding tax cut. I do not really care what we call it. We can call it a tax increase, we can call it a user fee increase, we can call it whatever we want. I do not think that is a big issue; it is really a mute issue. I think a lot has been said about airline safety. That is a mute issue. Everybody is for that, and they are not in danger of losing funding that would bring their operations below any kind of safety standards. But this is a big issue to me, and it kind of goes to the essence of what I think we are as conservatives.”