Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am very happy today to know that we are about to cast a vote on Edward Davila, nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. This is a wonderful nominee, and he deserves this up-or-down vote. I am convinced he is going to get an overwhelming vote, and I am going to speak to that in a moment. But the Senator from Tennessee was critical of President Obama's budget, and I wanted to just make a response to that. The Senator from Tennessee is not the only Republican to criticize President Obama's budget. They are all reading out of the same playbook. I just have to say that while no one agrees with everything in that budget--I certainly don't--the basis of the budget is critical, and this is the basis of the budget: The President is addressing the deficit in a very responsible way--freezing domestic discretionary spending--very tough, very tough--cutting billions and billions and billions of dollars of red ink while not jeopardizing the economic recovery that we are in the midst of. To me, it is very interesting because I had the privilege of being in this body the last time we balanced the budget. As far as I know, I don't recall any Republicans voting for Bill Clinton's budget. Maybe there were one or two, I don't recall. But that budget was in balance and we went into surplus. Frankly, we learned how to do it then. What did we learn?…”