Political Quotes

“in my rebuttal, I say to my good friend from Oklahoma that I truly believe one of the reasons his party is in trouble right now and his party is losing all these elections right now is because they do not have any answers to the problems that are facing us. Whether it is high gas prices--and my friend can say Congress was responsible. Come on. I remember when George Bush ran with Dick Cheney, and they said: We are two oil men, and we are going to make sure--we are going to use the power of the Presidency and the Vice Presidency to bring down gas prices. What happened? We will show you the chart again: a 250-percent increase since George Bush came into power. You could try to blame that on the Congress. That just does not wash because we Democrats have offered many ways to go after big oil. We have offered resolutions saying we should be free of foreign oil. Republicans, for the most part, do not vote for it. Democrats do. So that is a red herring. To blame it on the Congress is kind of laughable, when George Bush was complaining about the price of oil when he got into office--I remember that; it is not that much ancient history--and has been really unable to do anything about it. And just as we are on the brink of passing a very important bill to get us off foreign oil, get us off big oil, and all those programs my friend read from--and I will talk about them more tomorrow. Those are not bureaucracies.…”