Political Quotes

“I greatly appreciate the courtesy of the Senator from North Dakota. He himself is an expert on appropriations and budget matters, both at the Federal level and at the State level. It would be my hope that as this subject I am about to talk about moves ahead, it would be something that would interest him as well. 2-Year Appropriations I can make my point quickly and simply. We have heard a lot this year that the people of this country would like a change in the way we do business in Washington, DC. One way to do that is change how we go about our business. That means I would prefer, and I believe almost all of us would prefer, and I know the people would prefer, that we focus on big issues and we come up with good principled ideas. And then we debate those principles, and then we reach across the aisle, because it takes 60 votes to get anything done here to come to a result. We did that on the economic stimulus, we did that on energy, we did that on terrorism, and it didn't mean we didn't have debates. We had big debates. That is why we are here. But we came to a result and the result had to be bipartisan. I am not so interested in the bipartisanship as I am interested in the result. I heard Rick Warren speak the other day, and he said he wasn't so interested in interfaith dialog as he was interested in good works. I think that is what the people want to see from us.”