Political Quotes

“I am glad the Senator from West Virginia is on the floor because if someone were to ask where do we go from here, her work is the best example of that. Let's stop and think about this just a minute. The issue is whether we should include in a plan for border security some physical barrier. That is the issue. How do you resolve that issue? That is what we do. I remember, I went to see Johnny Cash when I was Governor of Tennessee, and I didn't quite know what to say to him so I said: How many nights are you on the road? He said: Oh, about 200. I said: Why do you do that? He looked at me and said: That is what I do. This is what we do. Our job is not to take a position or to make a speech. We could do that at home. We could get a radio program or a television show. No one might watch it, but we could get one. It takes very little courage and very little skill to take a position or make a speech, but what the Senator from West Virginia has shown that she is able to do is to take issues of border security and do what we are supposed to do, which is to put different views together and get a result. Now, this wasn't that long ago, what she just described. It was just last summer that the full Appropriations Committee of the Senate, which is about a third of all of us--almost equally divided, Republicans and Democrats--considered President Trump's budget request for border security. It included a request that included physical barriers--a wall. What was the result?…”