Political Quotes

“We distort, and so they want help. I get it. Yet, what do I do? Do I vote for food stamps? I am a cancer survivor--you know that--and I have cancer groups coming in and asking for money. I look at them, and I say: Well, can you go find some way to pay for it? A lot of my colleagues don't want to do that. I will close with this. President Reagan had a great quote on ``The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,'' a late-night show in the 1970s, before he was President, in which he said: Every program that a politician brings forward should have to come with a tax increase attached to it. Why is that? Was President Reagan pro tax increases? I know the gentleman from Arizona knows that not to be true. President Reagan believed in tax cuts and more money in the pockets of Americans to create wealth and to create economic growth. Yet, why he said that was because we promise things that we can't deliver. We promise things that we deliver that are fake because we are doling out money and printing money to pay for programs. Then, on the other side of the ledger, we never want to say: We need a tax increase to pay for it because we rightly understand that tax increases constrain the economy. In other words, in short, we put ourselves in the box we have created.”