Political Quotes

“Madam President, I know that the Senator from Massachusetts has time. I just want to take this time while he is coming into the Chamber to say that you can almost hear in the background very foreboding music as we are counting down the days. Here we are in a situation in which we cannot get a certain group of people over in the House of Representatives to be willing to sit down, and, as the Good Book says, to come and let us reason together. If we are going to govern this country, we have to come and reason together, people of goodwill who will respect each other's point of view, to hammer out a final agreement in order to start bringing this country into balance. It is sad that it is taking this long and this much of a difficult torturous process. Florida's History On a much happier note, at a subsequent time I want to share with the Senate the wonderful heritage that we have in this country, not from the English but from the Spanish. We are about to celebrate 500 years of the discovery of what is now America, the United States, from the Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon who first came to the shores of my State. Then soon thereafter we will celebrate the 450th anniversary of the oldest continuous settlement, a settlement that is 42 years before the English came and settled Jamestown. Those celebrations are going to be not just for Florida and not just for St. Augustine but for all of Florida and all of the country.…”