Political Quotes

“You have not heard from them either. I thought I was the only one who was completely stiffed by them. In November, I put in requests. I asked the Agency heads, the Department heads whose budgets we fund, ``If there is an adult in supervisory authority, please have them contact us and say what changes they want to make.'' I had a conversation with the Vice President. I said, ``This is a process in which the executive and the legislative branches need to sit down and compromise.'' Every government I have ever served in, and I served at the State level where I was a Republican chief executive with a Democratically controlled legislature, we always sat down and worked together, and the people expected us to do that. How can the people of the United States expect us to negotiate a budget or appropriations bills when one side will not even talk to us and all they do is send veto threats? I ask my colleague, how do you compromise? How do you work with, how do you negotiate with somebody who will not talk with you?”