Political Quotes

“I want to take just a few minutes to speak about my colleague from Colorado, Senator Cory Gardner--a kid from Yuma, as he described himself a minute ago--and to recognize the work that we have done for our State together in a bipartisan way. Over the past 6 years, one of the most common and sometimes surprising questions I have gotten from reporters and constituents was: How is your relationship with Senator Gardner? Can you work together with Senator Gardner? It is really an innocent question, but I have come to think about it as a reflection of the sad state of our politics and the Senate for the moment, in particular. Behind the question is the assumption that because Cory is a Republican and I am a Democrat we, somehow, can't work together for the benefit of our State. That hasn't been the case, far from it. Sometimes he would say and sometimes I would say that we felt like there were times when we were working together better than States that were represented by two people from the same political party. In this Congress, Colorado is 1 of just 10 States that isn't represented by Senators from the same party. Think about that--just 1 of 10 States with a split caucus in this body, just 10 out of 50. You would think it would be a lot higher, given how evenly divided we are as a country. A lot has been written about the divide in our country today, and one of the divides is the rural-urban divide in America, which reporters like to talk about.…”