Political Quotes

“I have cast over 10,000 votes as a U.S. Senator. It was one of the two votes I most regret ever having cast. The other one was voting for a fine, decent man, Supreme Court Justice Scalia. I regret that because his view turned out to be so fundamentally different than my view of the Constitution. One of the reasons why I think what the Senator is saying is so important is it took the Senator from Connecticut and the Senator from Delaware--you doing the right thing in the first instance, me making a mistake--it took us almost 20 years to bail out. I have the scars on my back, as does the Senator. He did not deserve them, I do--for the efforts we had to undertake to put the budget back in shape. There will be no chance because when this kicks in--when this kicks in, because it is the same time guys like the Senators from Connecticut and Delaware, the baby boom generation, are going to be retiring.”