Political Quotes

“The point is, we obviously run this body for the convenience of a few Senators, and probably that has happened for me. I cannot remember it ever happening for me, but I will just say it has. But it seems to me not unreasonable to say at 6 o'clock, if we do not vote before 8 o'clock, then we cannot vote until 9:30, so then somebody would have some idea of what in the world we are doing around here. Because it was pretty clear to me we were not going to vote before 8 o'clock, the way the debate was going. Now the Senator from Missouri raises really a valid question. If we are going to hang around here for another hour and 15 or 20 minutes, why not do it tomorrow? We have been told there very likely will be votes on this or other subject matters. I just think the legislation is so darn silly anyway, in many respects, but the actions out here are even worse; that we cannot find out until 8 o'clock that, by gosh, the vote has to be at 9:30 now. And why? Because other Senators have to go to dinner with some dignitary. I mean, there are a few Senators who would like to go to dinner without some dignitary; maybe with their families, maybe with their friends, or maybe just by themselves, but they cannot.”