Political Quotes

“I appreciate the kind words. My background is in accounting, and I have been in business for 34 years. I have produced budgets for people on time. I have had people produce budgets for me on time. I look at the process--or the lack of a process here as absurd. Think about it. I have certainly produced budgets for smaller businesses--let's say a $10 million company. They would go through an awful lot of detail to draw up a budget. Talk about a little bit larger business, maybe a $1 billion-per-year business. There would be a lot of people involved, a lot of detail, and all that information filters up to the top. Then you come here to Washington and you see business as usual. I just want to make sure the American people understand how absurd this process is, the fact we haven't passed a budget in the Senate in over 2 years. We now have the President--at least he has finally gotten engaged this last week. They are meeting behind closed doors. Is it really true they are going to produce a budget over the course of a couple of meetings--a budget for the Federal Government that would be $3.7 trillion, $3,700 billion worth--and they are going to do this behind closed doors, just a couple of people? That is an absurd process. The fact is, I am glad the President finally acknowledged Medicare is unsustainable. That is a sad fact. I wish it weren't so, but the first step, of course, in any process of being healed is to acknowledge that you have a problem.…”