John Chafee — American Politician born on October 22, 1922, died on October 24, 1999

John Lester Hubbard Chafee was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as the 66th Governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senator... (wikipedia)

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.
You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.