Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Louisiana very much. I am happy to join my friend from Louisiana and my friend from Minnesota. I am a small business owner. I have been from my teenage years. My wife is a small business owner. I understand the plight they go through--how to raise capital, how to start a small business, how to take a dream to reality. Sometimes those dreams do not work out so well, and what happens next? As we sit here and talk about the short term versus the long term, in business you lay out a business plan. It is a long-term plan. Businesses that set a short-term plan are the ones that have those big banners that say: ``Going out of business.'' Those are the short-term planners in the business world. We debate today--and I think we are a lot closer than maybe the media likes to portray--but it is a difference between in the next 6 months do we deal with this issue and have another debt limit vote in 6 months from now, and another 6 months later, and 6 months, or do we plan for the long term, get our economy more stable, more certain, so businesses can invest and do the right thing? As I said at the beginning, any business that you see that has a short-term plan usually has a sign that says: ``Going out of business'' or ``Quitting.'' We are not going to quit. We are going to have a long-term plan. I heard earlier today my colleague and friend from Georgia, from the other side, who practiced in real estate, Senator Isakson.…”