Political Quotes

“Well, you do not. I must say, I found particularly striking the analogy of the Senator from Missouri to a 2- or 3-year-old child who simply says, ``More.'' In this case, what we have is an administration that only says, ``More. We want more spending, we do not want any setoffs, but we want to send the bill to somebody else, to our children and our grandchildren. We really do not want a serious proposal that will lead us to a balanced budget, except maybe after the end of the next Presidential term. We will think about binding someone in the future, but we don't want to bind ourselves.'' So we have now in front of us the proposition that $164 billion is not enough money to spend, and the President will veto a bill that only spends $164 billion, of which $5 billion is fenced, as it were. ``We've got to have $166 billion to spend the way we want without any conditions imposed on that spending.'' Again, I think the Senator from Oregon was too polite to say so, but I believe that if that is the proposition with which we are faced, it is pointless to spend a week or so of this body's time debating the details of a proposal which will be vetoed in any event.”