Political Quotes

“if word were out this afternoon that a governmental official had wasted $150,000 of taxpayer money to further a political agenda, someone would surely be here denouncing it, and if the figure were instead $1.5 million, I am sure the line of speakers would be rather long. Were it $150 million of wasted taxpayer money, there would be bills and resolutions filed and other extraordinary action. But what we are dealing with this afternoon is not $150,000 or $150 million, but $1.5 billion of the greatest waste of taxpayer money in the history of these United States. That is the cost of the two Gingrich government shutdowns, $1.5 billion totally wasted, frivolously, to further a political agenda, and, in the word of the sponsor of this action, to pressure another political official into doing what they want; $1.5 billion. In all these budget negotiations, I have never seen a line item that should be there; $1.5 billion Gingrich government wasteful spending for shutting down the Government. Are they going to take that out of Medicare or just add it to the Government deficit?”