Political Quotes

“There almost seems to be an inverse relationship between the amount of money that is being spent and the level of discussion that takes place here. We are seeing a whole lot of discussion on the National Council on the Humanities and Public Broadcasting, right? Every day people are down here, some on one position, some on the other. It is a matter of a few hundred million dollars. What we are talking about is more than $20 billion, and as of this moment, we do not have a vote on that, and that is clearly an outrage. ... there has not been a vote on an appropriation for the Economic Stabilization Fund since 1934, 60 years since an appropriation has been voted for, yet the fund has continued to garner money through Treasury withdrawals, through having money printed, and they exchange some sort of bizarre notes which they obtain from the International Monetary Fund.”