Political Quotes

“I wish to speak about the issue at hand. Thank the good Lord we are finally having, as the Good Book says, people who will come let us reason together. I am so grateful, for the hundreds of thousands of people who have been directly hurt by this shutdown. I am very grateful we will avoid a default that would not only hurt the people of this country but would irreparably damage the financial foundation of this Nation. This should have never happened in the first place. We have heard the two previous Senators, one a Democrat and one a Republican, say the same--it shouldn't have happened in the first place. One doesn't hold the country hostage and disrupt people's lives to get their particular agenda done, particularly when they are dealing with an existing law that has been upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court. But that is exactly what has happened. We are in a situation in the politics of this country where narrow, certain special interests claim their position is the only position and have it reflected in Congress so that the political ideology of a narrow, small group of extremists can direct the affairs of the Congress. This group, especially in the House, can cause the trauma and the turmoil we have been through. We apparently have an agreement. I assume we are going to vote on it in the Senate, and it should pass overwhelmingly sometime today.…”