Political Quotes

“we are kind of making light of that, but there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these sorts of programs. We can start with the Russian monkeys where we were sending millions of dollars of taxpayers' money to Russia to launch monkeys into space, for heaven's sakes. We did this every year. Or the ice buckets that were delivered to our office doors every morning, even though we all had freezers. For goodness sakes, they started delivering ice buckets in the 1800s. In the 1930s, when they put refrigerators in the office, nobody ever told them to quit delivering ice. So they kept spending $500,000 a year delivering ice to our doors every morning. I might add, in the House of Representatives, we got that stopped in my first year here. The Senate did it 3 years later. So it only took them 3 more years to figure out it was not such a hot idea over in the other side of this body. But the list of this sort of thing goes on and on. The military plane that flew a cat back from I believe it was France to Colorado Springs at a ridiculous cost to taxpayers. Hundreds of government employees that we can do without. This list is so extensive. Then you add to that corporate welfare. We are going to talk later this week. Did the gentleman know we were using tax dollars to teach anglers, fisherman, how to guide for fishing, but not in America, but Ireland? Think about this for a second. Think about the logic of this program.”