Political Quotes

“Madam President, I have been here for almost 6 months now, but I have been carefully watching Washington for the last 32 years while I have been running my manufacturing business in Oshkosh, WI--watching how increasingly broken Washington has become over the years. Nothing I have seen in the last 6 months has changed that evaluation. Washington is broken and America is going broke. Our economy is in a coma and people are suffering. America hungers for leadership, and it is not getting any--not from President Obama and not from the Senate. We can't afford to have a broken political process--not now, not while America is hurtling toward a financial crisis. Under Democratic leadership, it has been over 2 years since the Senate passed a budget, and there is currently no markup going on in the Budget Committee to produce one. America is going bankrupt. Yet the Senate refuses to pass a budget. The President's budget that he presented several months ago to great fanfare--remember that--4\1/4\ inches thick, 2,400 pages long, and who knows how many thousands of man hours that document took to produce--was going to be the solution to our fiscal problems. But it was so unserious it would have added over $12 trillion to our Nation's debt. It was so unserious that when it was voted on in the Senate, it lost by a vote of 0 to 97. It was so unserious that not a single member of the President's own party voted for it. Instead of rolling up his shirt sleeves and personally tackling the No.…”