Political Quotes

“Madam President, I thank my colleague from Virginia. As he was talking, I was thinking about my work in the real world, as he has had that experience. If you were in a position where everybody wanted to get it done, if there was general agreement that you were 80 or 90 percent of the way there, the way to get it done was not to not continue discussion. It wasn't to say: Well, I am going to pick up and fly back to Denver or fly back to Virginia until cooler heads prevail. It was to stay in the room and get it done. I think, particularly when this isn't about a private sector transaction, this is about the American people's business, the people who have hired everybody here to do this job, it is a shame that we should not be out here tonight in a bipartisan way figuring out how to cross the t's and dot the i's and put a framework in place that would have prevented the catastrophe our families are now continuing to live through. Sometimes that is one of the things people forget. There are parts of the economy that have recovered faster than others. There are parts of the economy where people are getting hired or paid, other parts where people are still struggling along. The people I saw this weekend were people who were struggling along. They are not interested in engaging in class warfare, as some people say.…”