Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this budget. At the end of the day, this is about jobs, it's about our economy, and it's about the people's money. You see, all too often Congress talks about its money, talks about the way it wants to spend the people's money. No. It's the people's money. It's not Congress's to just go and allocate and pull their money out of their wallets to hand to somebody else. What we have to recognize each and every time a decision is made about where and how to spend money is that they're pulling money out of people's pockets and handing it to somebody else. And right now we're on a trajectory where 25 cents--25 cents--out of every dollar spent in this country is spent by the Federal Government. Fundamentally that's wrong. We have to change the trajectory. We have to have systemic changes. And that's what I like about this budget. Because not only does it put us on a pathway to balance the budget but to actually pay off the debt. I ran for Congress because I was sick and tired of what was happening. I wanted to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. We have to recognize that our national debt just 48 months ago was $8.67 trillion. Yet with the Democrats in control of the House and the Senate, it rose to over $14 trillion, a rise of more than 60 percent in just 48 months. We can't continue to do that.…”