Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from California for getting this time for this important message and to just talk with people. That is really what this body, at its very best, does: we talk amongst ourselves, we solve problems. What you are hearing about today, namely, that we are 3 days away from shutting down our own national security, is an example of this body not solving a problem--in fact, causing a problem. You think: Who is causing this? Why is our security going to shut down in 3 days? Who is doing this? Who is shutting down the Department of Homeland Security? The sad answer is that we are doing it to ourselves. There is no reason for this manufactured crisis. I want to share my story from 9/11. 9/11 is something that, in our generation, we all remember where we were. It is like the Kennedy assassination to our grandparents' generation or like the Moon landing. Everybody knows exactly where they were and what they were doing when we heard about the Twin Towers. I was at a conference near Washington, D.C., here. Like anybody who was near one of the sites, it was scary because we didn't know what was going on. The rumor was: all planes are flying into buildings, we are under attack. They thought there were bombs at one point. It was a madhouse to try to escape the area and get out of the city.…”