Political Quotes

“I am joined on the floor by Senator Whitehouse, so we might take a moment here with the chairman to have a little bit of a colloquy and then head off to another hearing. While he is here, I wanted to say a special thank-you to Senator Whitehouse for the work he and Jon Kyl, our colleague from Arizona, and Chris Coons, our colleague from Delaware, and others have done in really helping to put the meat on the bones, if you will, of our original legislation. And they have done great work. I really admire them, and I thank all of them. Over at the other end of the Capital, they have spent a whole lot of time in recent weeks and months on the issue of Fast and Furious, and I wanted to mention that one of the reasons I think the American people are furious with us is we are not moving fast enough to deal with the economy and to create jobs. Yet government doesn't create jobs. Presidents don't create jobs. Governors don't create jobs. As a former Governor, I know this. Members of the Senate don't create jobs. We help create a nurturing environment for jobs and job creation. That includes a lot of things, such as a world-class workforce, access to capital, infrastructure, access to reasonably priced energy and reasonably priced health care.…”