Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today because we are discussing the cut, cap, and balance legislation, which I support. This gets back to a poster I have had at home with my kids over the years. I have a copy of it here. It is called ``the two penny difference.'' It says that if you earn a dollar and you spend the 99 cents, you are OK. But spend $1.01 and you are heading for trouble. This is from many years ago. Today, spending seems more fashionable than saving. What once was called ``poor money management'' is now called ``deficit spending.'' Whatever it is called, it leads to inevitable headaches for people, companies, and even for governments. Frankly, that is the situation in which we find ourselves today, a major headache, because as a nation we have continued to spend money we don't have. As a result, we have been borrowing money, significant amounts of money. Actually, it is about $4 billion a day. A lot of it we are borrowing from overseas, and much of it from China. You say, how does one maintain oneself as an independent, strong, and forceful nation when it owes that sort of debt to someone else? What the American people have told me as I traveled around my State is that Americans believe--and the people of Wyoming clearly believe-- they want Washington to cut spending, not increase taxes. The White House doesn't seem to hear that message. They are ignoring it, tuning it out.…”