Political Quotes

“I am privileged to rise in support of this measure and am delighted not only to join the real pioneers in this effort--Senator Glenn and Senator Grassley--but to speak after our new colleague, the Senator from Tennessee, who has spoken eloquently. I was thinking after this election, there is an old story about a politician who lost an election by a lot, he got clobbered. In the traditional election night speech, he got up and said, ``The people have spoken, but did they have to speak so loudly?'' I think the answer in this case is, obviously, the people did feel they had to speak loudly, and what they were speaking for was change, change in the status quo and, I think, demanding a Government that responds to their problems, that deals efficiently with those responses and that, most of all, gets its own house in order. I found an increasing number of people--and I would say it is a majority out there--who really do not care whether you are Republican or Democrat. What they care about is what you are doing and what have you done.”