Political Quotes

“the sole issue before the U.S. Senate that is being debated this afternoon and voted on at such time as the House has completed action, is whether or not we accept a budget resolution agreed to by a majority of conferees on the budget. Once again, we are engaged in debate in which the opponents of this resolution, without exception, give lip service to a balanced budget. But as has been the case this year, last year, in 1994, in 1993, and every year back through the 1970's, it is always a different balanced budget, not this one, not the resolution we have before us right now. More taxes, says the Senator from South Carolina; more cuts in defense says another Senator; less in the way of a restriction on entitlement growth, says a third. Mr. President, I am convinced that it is that kind of 'I'm for a balanced budget, but not this one, not now, not this year, not this way,' that causes us to have a national debt that exceeds $5 trillion.”