Political Quotes

“my colleague from Maryland is exactly right. He answers his question with his question. In fact, it obviously is far more reasonable. Again, I recall the then-minority leader, Senator Dole, making the case in part that it was not just the politics. He worried about the damage being done to the Presidency, the office of the Presidency. So he made that appeal on the basis that we ought not to damage the office of the Presidency. Of course, we are well aware that our colleague from Kansas, the majority leader, is an active candidate for the office of the Presidency today, and yet yesterday in the Rules Committee when the matter came up as to whether or not we ought to try and put some limitation on this for 5 weeks and a limited amount of money, there was a vote. Our colleague, Senator Ford of Kentucky, offered an amendment to the open-ended proposal and said, ``How about 5 weeks, $185,000, with an additional month to wrap it up?'' The majority leader was there for the vote. He voted against that and voted for the open-ended proposition. Only 5 years ago he was, of course, making a strong case in the other direction.”