I have never seen more senators express discontent with their…

I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs…. I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy… We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.

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John Danforth, Republican senator from Missouri, reported in the Arizona Republic of April 21, 1992

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