Political Quotes

“If the Senator will yield, unless you are unwilling to tell the American people where you stand, unwilling to put real numbers on paper--you prefer to say: American people, don't worry about it; we are meeting in secret over here. Don't worry about it; we have the Vice President, and he called some Senators together, and he is going to fix it. You guys who serve on committees and the Finance Committee where taxes have to be voted on, should be voted on are no longer relevant. The system is broken. They are saying: We are not going to go along with this, and it is not because it will not work, it is because the budget presented by the President, the only budget we have seen here increased taxes substantially, it increased spending even more than that, and it increased the debt more than if we had done nothing over the 10 years. I see our colleague, Senator Toomey, a new Senator but not new to the budget process because he was a member of the Budget Committee in the House. What I am frustrated about, and I believe people should be frustrated about, is this policy decision by the leadership in the Senate that it was foolish to produce a budget. That is not a sign that the Senate is broken; it is a sign that the leadership is broken. It is a sign the leadership does not have the courage to actually stand before the American people and produce a plan, because it either would raise taxes too much, not cut spending enough, or raise the debt too much.…”