Political Quotes

“Well, Mr. President, responding to my friend from Alabama, the number, I am advised, is roughly $3 billion in additional revenue to the Treasury, and that would be over 10 years. But, as you can see, it is a drop in the bucket when it comes to the deficit for 1 year, which is $1.5 trillion, and the national debt of $14 trillion. I apologize, I am not used to dealing with numbers that big, which demonstrates that these numbers really have kind of lost their meaning here. I remember Everett Dirksen being quoted as saying: A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you are talking about real money. The fact is we are not talking about millions, we are not talking about billions, we are talking about trillions. I think most people's minds have a very difficult time conceiving of how big a number that is.”