Political Quotes

“I rise today to bring us back to what I believe is the purpose of the bill that is before us. I spent 10 very proud years over in the House of Representatives and 6 very proud years in local government, and I am starting my second very proud year in the U.S. Senate. I am most honored to be part of this body. When I came to the Senate, some of my colleagues said you are going to be very surprised when you get to the Senate, because you are going to be taking up a bill and suddenly there are going to be amendments offered that really have nothing to do with the bill at hand, and you are going to wonder what is happening. I had a year here and I saw a lot of that go on. But, Madam President, I really did hope and I really did think that when we had a travesty such as the one that we had in southern California--a 6.8 Richter scale earthquake, with the power and energy release of millions of NASA space shuttles all at once, thrusting people out of their sleeping beds, crushing people, hospitals destroyed, schools destroyed, homes destroyed, dreams destroyed, children frightened--I really hoped that we could move quickly on a response.…”