Political Quotes

“Reserving the right to object, I feel like Yogi Berra when he said ``It's deja vu all over again.'' Just 18 hours ago, the Senator from New York and I stood here, and he made the exact same request, and I objected to it. And I will object again. I will object tomorrow, and I will object for as long as he wants to make these requests. I will point out, though, that the business of the people is not being done. For all of you up there in the Gallery, we just started 20 minutes ago. That is the regular order under which the Senate starts when it can't reach agreement on when to start earlier. We typically would start around 9:30 or 10, but the Democrats refused to allow us to come in earlier today to start processing some of the President's nominations. You may have heard on TV that Democrats on the Finance Committee have boycotted their hearing this morning. They refused to show up to do their job to confirm some of the President's nominees. I don't know how long they plan to do this. I don't know if they intend to abscond out of the district, if we are going to have to vote to have the Sergeant at Arms track them down and haul them into work to do their business. I see him standing right over there. He has a distinguished record in military and law enforcement. He could probably do that effectively. I wish, though, that they would simply show up and have a debate and do their work and confirm the President's nominees in an orderly process.…”