Political Quotes

“sometime in the next 2 weeks, we will leave this body and this session, and many of us will return in January for the next one. We will leave many challenges unmet and many problems unsolved, partly because of the partisanship that has paralyzed the Congress, our Federal Government, and many of our States. The model for what we should adopt as the spirit going forward as we begin that new session is articulated powerfully in a letter that was recently sent to us by 44 former colleagues--10 Republicans, 32 Democrats--coming together to cite the challenges this Nation faces and the need for us to do so in a bipartisan way, coming together in the spirit of what makes this country the greatest in the history of the world. I hope my colleagues will pay attention to that letter. Yesterday, I entered it into the Congressional Record, and I am proud today to cite parts of it that I think are worthy of our attention. They say--and they are right--that ``we are at an inflection point [in our Nation's history] in which the foundational principles of our democracy and our national security interests are at stake, and the rule of law and the ability of our institutions to function freely and independently must be upheld.'' That is a quote from a letter which puts us on notice that we have a historic obligation to work together, as they have come together in this letter, as they did so often to accomplish great things in this body.…”