Political Quotes

“I am on the floor again with my colleague from Texas, Senator Cruz, trying once again to pass our Pay Our Military Act. I am not going to spend a lot of time explaining what we are trying to do here since 48 hours ago we tried to do the same thing. We are, in our conference, right now trying to get to a compromise, working through things to make sure we don't have a government shutdown. It may or may not happen. It is looking more likely, though. As we get closer to that moment, the idea that we would leave the men and women who protect this country uncertain about whether they are going to get paid even though they are still going to deploy, they are still going to be fighting all over the world, protecting this Nation-- so we are going to leave them out hanging, right? So all we are trying to do is the most commonsense thing you could do if you cared one bit about the troops of the United States, and that is to say: Hey, we know you are worried. We know you are probably deployed. We know your wife or spouse is back home worried about whether you are going to get paid next week. You have a dangerous mission you are going on tonight somewhere in the world. So we are going to take that worry away from you because we care about you. Now, granted, my colleagues might say: Well, what about the IRS worker? What about the Department of the Interior worker? No offense--there is a little bit of a difference, OK. There is a little bit of a difference. We all know it.…”