Political Quotes

“the business before the Senate this week is financial regulation reform. It is hard to pick what the business should be this week. There is so much going on that is of great concern to so many of us. We have a briefing this afternoon on the dimensions of the oilspill in the Gulf of Mexico. Those of us in Tennessee are deeply concerned about the 1,000-year rain--an event that only happens every 1,000 years or so, according to some of the engineers in the Army Corps--that has wreaked havoc on middle Tennessee and which is beginning now to hurt west Tennessee. Also, we have the Arizona immigration debate, which the distinguished Senator from Illinois was discussing a little earlier. We have a new START treaty the President has asked us to consider. Just around the corner, we have a nomination coming for a vacancy on the Supreme Court of the United States which will dominate, as it should, the attention of this body for 2 or 3 months or so until it is thoroughly considered. Of course, the American people would like for us to focus on jobs. I have great respect for the Democratic Governor of Tennessee who was quoted in the Wall Street Journal yesterday saying the following: ``If I have 100 conversations with people, 95 of them will be about jobs and none of them will be about cap-and-trade and none of them will be about bank reform,'' said Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, a conservative Democrat, in an interview. That is according to the Wall Street Journal.”