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I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.

I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through?

Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.

I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.