Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, there is so much going on these days. We have the responsibility of reining in spending, if we will just simply live up to it. We know that our friends at the other end of the hall, the majority in the Senate, want to spend, want to tax more, not interested in making serious cuts. It's rather amazing that this President could come into office and Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid could bump up the spending by $1 trillion, and when it becomes apparent to the whole world, not just the U.S. but the whole world, that we've got to rein back in that extra trillion they began to spend, not only do they not want to cut that extra trillion that is bankrupting us, but they want to add taxes on Americans so that they can justify even more spending. It shouldn't work that way. We're running a deficit. We have been for a number of years. And to have Speaker Pelosi take over this Chamber and take a $160 billion deficit, which we shouldn't have run when the Republicans had the House in '06, and then parlay that into 10 times more deficit spending is just unfathomable. But it has happened, and it's got to stop. We owe that to future generations. At the same time, we also know, and I think Joel Rosenberg, the author, referred to it in his book, ``Inside the Revolution,'' that Osama bin Laden didn't just rejoice in the killing of 3,000 or so Americans on 9/11.…”