Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I understand that President Obama has summoned certain congressional leaders to the White House tomorrow to discuss spending, debt and deficits, and the debt limit we now operate under. The President has summoned congressional leaders to the White House on at least eight different occasions in recent weeks to discuss budget and debt issues, not including the private talks involving Vice President Biden. Yet with only weeks to go before the debt limit deadline--we are told August 2--secret discussions have failed to produce any grand bargain. Talk is not an action. I do think that is a problem the President has. He thinks making a speech or having an announcement is something that actually involves changing course in America and it has some effect, when it is pretty clear it does not. We have had lots of talks and we have heard lots of speeches, so I think we should stop paying attention to these private talks, from which no details emerge and no public discussion is heard. We are getting much too close to the point at which it will be too late to involve the public and allow Congress to fulfill its constitutional duty on spending and taxes. In remarks yesterday, the President said, ``To truly solve our debt problem, we need to take on spending and domestic programs and defense programs and entitlement programs.'' Well, I agree. Yet the only plan he has put forward proposed increases in his spending for next year in the budget he submitted.…”