Political Quotes

“Well, I remember that the Democrats were being criticized and they were saying: You are not letting us get this Y2K bill up for a vote, because we wanted to do--I remember this very clearly--some sensible gun amendment. We were told we were holding up Y2K. We said: We can get those things done. And, thanks to the majority leader, we moved to the juvenile justice bill, and with bipartisan help we got some good, sensible gun amendments through, and we went right to Y2K. I want to say to my friend, the ranking member on the committee, who has some real problems with the bill--more problems than this Senator has--didn't object to proceeding to the bill. He said: OK, we will proceed. He asked me to please make my case. I said: I will settle for any time agreement. I said I didn't need a vote. I said: Take my amendment. I agreed to the other side's recommendations. Then they said: Oh, we can't do it. I don't understand why they can't take this amendment. I keep coming back to that. Every time I work my way into my best closing argument, because I think there is going to be a vote--I had my best closing argument at 1:55, because I thought we were voting at 2. Then I had to rev up again at 2:30, and I got another good closing argument. Now they say we are going to have a vote at 3:30. I don't see anybody here yet. I hope they come here, because I think it is important. The amendment pending before the Senate is a consumer amendment, because it says fix the problem.…”