Political Quotes

“Thank you, Madam Chair. I certainly did not want to take the floor from our distinguished colleague, Connie Morella. It's so wonderful to see you. Maybe good news for you, I've lost my voice. I know it will be good news for the Speaker, but we'll see later in the day. I join him in welcoming you back to the Capitol. I hope it is always a source of joy to you to set foot on this floor, this place our Founders decided was the marketplace of ideas, where we would compete in the marketplace of ideas and find common ground to go forth. Your legacy is an important one to us. As I look around and see all of you, I see contributions that you have made over the years that we still benefit from. It's an honor to be here with Bob Michel. I think he enjoyed the job of minority leader more than I do. What do you think, Bob? What do you think? We were all there to celebrate his birthday recently. It was a bipartisan fiesta, wasn't it? That was just a couple months ago we celebrated a landmark birthday. Happy birthday again. But all of you, I heard what the Speaker said about this openness on the floor, and I thought that was really good news, because we've been trying to get a budget to the floor for a very long time but without much success to allow our budget to come to the floor. So I'm going to take the words that I just heard to Chris Van Hollen and tell him that happy days are here again and that our amendment will be made in order in the Rules Committee.…”