Intransigence Quotes
This famous phrase, which boomeranged on Goldwater, was actually a close paraphrase of the great Roman orator Cicero. See related quote.
On that day, the Republican Majority in the House adopted a strategy to attach conditions to the normal budget process that they knew was unacceptable to the Senate and the President. The United States Government, the greatest nation on Earth, literally shut down all but the most essential services. What was worse is that the majority of the House of Representatives would pass a clean budget if they could vote on it. But the Tea Party Republicans blackmailed the Republican speaker that he would lose his speakership if he did not follow their strategy which was ironically controlled by a Republican Senator who had already lost on the issues they wanted in the Senate and in a Presidential election.
This statement is eerily similar to the statements of some of the Islamic fanatic fundamentalists 80 years later.
He was a Loyalist Tory and generally opposed to independence. The passion of the other politicians at the First Continental Congress surprised him greatly.
