Political Quotes

“I wish to begin this evening, as I will try to repeat during the next 2 days, with my deep appreciation to the majority leader, Harry Reid. While there were a lot of people involved in this process over the last several years who have brought us to this moment for us to consider this very important landmark piece of legislation regarding reform of our financial services, none of this ever happens unless you have a leader who makes it possible to happen. While that is a simple enough sentence to say, there is so much that goes into that sentence--the organization, bringing people together, seeing to it that the time is available, making sure the procedures that we will work under allow us to have a full-throated debate, as we were able to on this bill. This bill went through almost a month of consideration on the Senate floor. We considered almost 60 different amendments offered by both parties, many of which were adopted to change the bill, added value to it.”