Political Quotes

“I regret the absence from the floor of the two Senators from North Dakota who just engaged in a discussion of this and of other budget proposals. But even in their absence, their statements should not go without response. At one level, the so-called Social Security argument, the proposition that these budgets are not balanced, we are dealing with mere debating points, and relatively outrageous debating points at that. At a second level, the concerns of the Senator from North Dakota, Mr. Conrad, who was a part of the same bipartisan group attempting to reach a common ground on that issue, as I was, I wish my remarks to be more serious. I think his were more pointed and more thoughtful. I will try to do the same. More than a year ago, at the time at which this argument about whether or not payroll taxes and Social Security benefits should be counted when we determine whether or not the budget was balanced, Charles Krauthammer, in his column in the Washington Post, wrote: In my 17 years in Washington, this is the single most fraudulent argument I have heard.”