Political Quotes

“I wish to take a few minutes to express my views on the bill overall and also to express my appreciation to an awful lot of people who worked very hard on this legislation over the last year and a half, not just over the last 4 weeks this bill has been the subject of Senate debate. Last week, the Senate voted to pass this historic and comprehensive Wall Street reform legislation. Over the weekend, the New York Times wrote: With the Senate's passage of financial regulation, Congress and the White House have completed 16 months of activity that rival any other since the New Deal in scope or ambition. I argue that it is not the scope of our mission that we will remember when we look back on this period in our Nation's history. Instead, I believe we will remember the scope of the challenge with which we have been confronted, the weight of the burden we have been asked to lift off the backs of the American people, and the difficult work we had to do to get the job done. Our Nation was founded on principles of religious freedom and representative government, but our history reveals that one of the most truly American principles is that of self-determination. In America, if you work hard and play by the rules, there is no limit to what you can achieve. That idea is so central to our national character that it is tempting to take it for granted. We rarely think about the foundation upon which that promise rests, but that foundation is there. It is real.…”