On the recordOctober 8, 1997
The first night when I found these numbers, I called my wife and said, ``You are not even going to believe this. I found out that, when we go back to our 1995 promises, we had over $100 billion more revenue coming in and we actually spent less money.'' She said to me, ``Someone is giving you bad numbers.'' So my wife would not even believe it at first. I have gone through these numbers time and time again. I challenge each and every one of my colleagues to take the time, sit down and look at these numbers, and really understand just how far we have come as a Nation when we could have over $100 billion extra revenue come in and spend less money. Because what this really means is that we borrowed less money on our children and our grandchildren's backs, and that is what this is about.
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