Political Quotes

“I rise this morning to commemorate National Police Week and to speak to the service of the brave men and women in local law enforcement. But, first, I feel compelled to make a comment in response to the exchange between the majority leader and the Republican leader, to simply speak, if I could, briefly about the ongoing pain each and every working American family feels when they go to the gas station. With the price of gasoline at an alltime high, with the price of gasoline flirting with $4 a gallon, with the price of oil retreating from an alltime high, and with, most importantly, oil company profits gushing through the roof and hitting an alltime high, Members of our party, Members of this body came forward yesterday with a bill which got more than 50 votes but failed to hit the 60 needed in this body to make for cloture, which would have made significant progress on dealing with our deficit. We just heard a comment on the floor that we need to stop picking winners and losers and need to move forward in helping America end its dependence on foreign energy. I could not agree more because the expenditures through our Tax Code--the billions and billions of dollars in needless expenditures through our Tax Code--that continue to subsidize some of the most wildly profitable corporations in American history is exactly that, picking winners, and the losers are the American people.…”