Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding. I would simply say to my colleague from New York, if you don't want a shutdown, if you are trying to prevent a shutdown, prove it. There is a simple way to prove it, Madam Speaker. Defeat the previous question so we can consider a simple amendment, an amendment that does one thing, that let's this body take an up or down vote on the bipartisan Republican and Democratic Senate continuing resolution that is being negotiated as we speak. That is it. It gives that resolution privilege so that this House can consider it, can take that up or down vote and ensure that the government stays funded, Madam Speaker. If you are not prepared to do that, if my colleagues aren't prepared to do that, then please spare us these supposed concerns for a government shutdown that you have engineered from the start. You want to talk about blame, Madam Speaker, here is a quote, and this is not my quote. This is not conservatism. This is stupidity. The idea that we are going to shut the government down when we don't control the Senate, when we don't control the White House. These people can't define a win. They don't know how to take yes for an answer. It is a clown show. You keep running lunatics, this is what you are going to have. These are not my words, Madam Speaker. These are the words of the gentleman from New York. If he doesn't want to be a part of this clown show--I don't disagree with him, by the way.…”