John Breaux Quotes

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• Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always…
• I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.
• Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help…
• I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another…
• Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.
• There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American…
• I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something…
• I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented…
• And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the…
• Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to…
• It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.
• When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going…
• I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.
• My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.
• But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and…
• But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority…
• Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a…
• I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize…
• We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
• When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going…

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