Political Quotes

“Mr. President, let us be very clear. I think we all get a sense of what is going to happen here in about 3 hours and 45 minutes, and that is cloture, instead of being invoked, is not going to be invoked. Everyone ought to understand this. This is the vote. This will be your vote in this Congress on campaign finance reform. It is going to come down to this. It will get obscured so much because it is a procedural vote. But how you vote on this will be determined on how you are judged on the issue of campaign finance reform. The idea that we ought to reject the effort to invoke cloture here because we want to make perfect the enemy of the good, I think is a great tragedy. I think it is so transparent that anyone watching this will see right through it--to come up and say, ``I don't like this aspect or that aspect,'' therefore denying the opportunity for cloture to be invoked. As I listened to our distinguished colleague from Utah suggest an amendment that might have something to do with whether or not organized labor would be able to participate with soft money, or that independent campaigns will not be allowable in a postcloture environment, it is ridiculous on its face.”