Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to thank the distinguished Senator from New Jersey for his remarks, and most particularly for the remarks of my friend and colleague from California. She has fought this fight along with the dean of our women, Senator Mikulski, year after year and time after time. Before I speak about the Blunt amendment, I wanted to express that the retirement or announced perspective retirement of Senator Olympia Snowe is, for me, a heartbreak. I have regarded her as one of the most impressive Senators in our body. She still has many good years ahead of her. I have had the pleasure of working with her on a number of bills. Most importantly, we did really the only fuel economy improvement that had been done in 20 years in the 10-over-10 bill. What is interesting about it is it was a bipartisan bill and it got passed thanks to Senator Ted Stevens who was Vice-Chairman of the Commerce Committee at the time and it was put in his bill. So it was really quite wonderful to see that happen. This is my 20th year here, along with my friend and colleague Senator Boxer, and over the last 10 years what I have seen is more and more attacks on women and women's health, stemming largely from the abortion debates, but not only that.…”