Political Quotes

“Mr. President, have you ever noticed when someone points their finger and says ``it is all your fault, it is all your fault,'' did you notice that there are three fingers pointing back at them? Here we have the blame game going on. What we have is politics at its worst. In trying to govern a country that is large and diverse and complicated, as our country is, you have to have people of good will who will come together to build consensus, who will respect each other's opinion, who will respect each other, and realize that their opinion may not be the only opinion. That is what we have that is leading us to this point. We have folks who are saying, it is going to be my way or no way. And because of the vote structures, 60 votes required here in order to pass anything out of 100 Senators, we are coming to the precipice, and we are about to fall off. It is not supposed to work this way. You can have people who sharply disagree about a particular issue, but when it is time to build a consensus and get it done, you have got to have that capability of coming together. Some people use the word ``compromise.'' But compromise has a dirty connotation. It should not. It is the glue of solution making. And that is what this world's most deliberative body for over two centuries has done so well, is come together to build consensus to govern the country. Notice something else. You do not govern from the political extremes.…”