Political Quotes

“I rise tonight, as I have for many weeks now, to call for a bipartisan solution to our deficits and debt, for us to bridge--to use a term we utilize in Colorado--the mountainous divide in order to avoid defaulting on our obligations. Bipartisanship is a familiar theme in my home State of Colorado, and I know Coloradans agree with me that is the only way forward. My constituents have been flooding my office with calls of frustration urging me to keep fighting for a solution to this impending debt limit crisis we face. They know the stakes are high, and they know we have to compromise to get something done. As I have traveled my State over these summer months, I have not found one single person in Colorado who has demanded more partisanship and more dysfunction. But here we are, seemingly, on a Saturday night with just that. My constituents--Coloradans--are searching for answers and solutions. Yet all we seem to have here are more questions. For the life of me, I just do not understand why, when our economy is still fragile, we are so close, it seems, to sentencing it to additional turmoil. Those who know me know I am not quick to anger or to express frustration, but I just cannot help but join Coloradans in looking at the situation we are in with disbelief.…”