Political Quotes

“Mr. President, before I speak to the topic that brought me to the floor tonight, I want to acknowledge the Presiding Officer's remarks on the situation with Lehman Brothers and others on Wall Street. I know that the Senator is on a mission, and nothing would make him happier, nor me happier, if the story of Lehman Brothers is a story that is told for the last time, much less written for the last time. I listened with great interest to the narrative that is now unfolding, and with that interest also the sense of horror and outrage and anger that the Presiding Officer clearly carries. A crime is a crime, as it was pointed out, whether it is $500 from a cash register or literally billions, in fact trillions of dollars of net worth that we have seen taken from Americans and American families. I commend the Presiding Officer for his leadership, and I think he put it well when he pointed out if you are too big to fail, you are too big to exist, and too bad. Never again should that happen. So I wanted to acknowledge the Presiding Officer. ____________________”