Political Quotes

“today, state of the Union day, marks 1,000 days since this Senate has fulfilled its statutory responsibility of passing a budget. This is not a little bitty matter, and it implicates the leadership of the Democratically controlled Senate and their willingness to address the American people honestly and effectively concerning the very significant financial threats this Nation faces. Indeed, President Obama, on April 29, 2009, when we last had a budget, said this: A budget serves as an economic blueprint for the Nation's future. That is true. It is not an insignificant document that just has a bunch of numbers; it is a blueprint for the Nation's future. We either have one or we don't. He went on to say a budget is necessary ``to lay a new foundation for growth and to strengthen our economy.'' I believe that is certainly true because the whole world, our own economy, U.S. businesses and investment, and the American people are concerned that we don't have a plan for our future that gets us off of the debt path--some would say an economic growth death path--that we are on. They want to see that we have a plan to do better. We will have a speech tonight. I suspect it will be grand in sound and have some popular phrases. But the question is, when it is over will we have a plan that can be examined? Will we have a plan that will lead us on an improved--dramatically improved--debt path or will we remain in business-as-usual mode, in denial?…”