29 Quotes by David Keene

Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along.

You can't do these things on a basis of trust. There have to be some sort of checks and balances. Lurking behind this is something nobody knows about.

Big government conservatism is an oxymoron. In 1965 Lyndon Johnson built public housing. Now it looks like we will build trailer parks. This will be defining, in the sense that the neo-cons will end up saying government can do this. The real hero of these people is FDR. I don't happen to believe any of this will work. You can't rebuild New Orleans society.

Conservatives throughout the United States are increasingly losing faith in the president and the Republican leadership in Congress to adequately prioritize and rein in overall federal spending, American taxpayers have witnessed the largest spending increase under any preceding president and Congress since the Great Depression.

I've been astounded by Bush in his relationship with Republicans in Congress. In my lifetime, there has been no Republican president who has spent as much effort and as much time electing people of his own party to the Congress, or less time talking to them after they got there.

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.

The one big strategic error -- which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions -- was the prescription drug bill.

This is not a partisan issue. It is an issue of safeguarding the fundamental freedoms of all Americans so that future administrations do not interpret our laws in ways that pose constitutional concerns.

This is the dangerous side of what's going on.