Political Quotes

“Now is the time and this is the place for the oratory to end and the true work in balancing our budget and building a brighter future for our own generation, for our children and our grandchildren, is to begin. There are no longer any real excuses. A year ago, for the very first time for 20 or 30 years, this Congress actually passed a balanced budget that was then vetoed by the President. But that balanced budget changed the entire nature of the debate. The President himself proposed a budget that was balanced, as inadequate as it was unfair, but nonetheless lip service to this proposition. Again, this year we have before us from the Budget Committee, with my support, a budget that is truly balanced, but the execution of which will almost certainly receive another veto from a President in an election year. This group, for the first time in a decade, two decades, three decades, has gotten together, on a bipartisan basis, to solve the greatest problem facing the United States of America, Democrats and Republicans working together.”