John Breaux Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous John Breaux quotes and sayings (politician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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 have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.”
“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 floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.”
“I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.”
“We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.”
“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 is important to the people of Louisiana.”
“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 to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.”
“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 to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'”
“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 part.”
“It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.”
“My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.”
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