Political Quotes

“Is it fair to characterize these attempts by the majority to change the rules...as an 'arrogance of power.' Those are pretty tough words, but that is the exact term used by then-Senator Biden in 2005 to describe a similar attempt to rewrite the rules to favor the majority at that time. So what goes around comes around. Does the Senator from Tennessee find it as disconcerting as I do that the junior Senator from New Mexico has introduced a resolution declaring the rules of the Senate 'unconstitutional' in order to rewrite the rules to favor a slimmer majority, i.e., one, one free throw. That is it. Does any majority last forever? The answer to that is no. What goes around comes around. If the interpretation of the Constitution and the Senate rules of the junior Senator from New Mexico is accepted, I say to my friend from Tennessee, what is to prevent any majority of either party from rewriting the rules of the Senate whenever it suits them? Would such a practice not negate the whole point of having rules in the continuing body that is the Senate?”