Political Quotes

“Mr. Ryan, thank you so much for bringing us just some sense of reality of what is actually happening here. We're in the eighth day of the lockout. We're in the eighth day of the shutdown of the government of the United States of America. And it appears, from all that we hear from the Republican side, that this may go right up to the debt limit. What a tragedy it would be if we hit that and took down the entire economy. I think it's time for me to close. I want to thank my colleagues. I would ask the American people to pay attention. And finally, Mr. Speaker, let us vote. Speaker Boehner, let us vote on a clean continuing resolution so that we can, once again, start this government. The votes are here. And if you don't believe the votes are here, put us up on the board. Let's see if there are 217 votes to reopen the American Government. We can only find out, Mr. Speaker, if you let us vote. With that, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________”