Political Quotes

“Mr. President, first, before the Senator from Tennessee leaves the floor, if he was getting ready to, I wish to commend him on his activities over the last 8 days. For the second time in a decade, we came to the brink of making a bad mistake in the Senate. But we proved--and Senator Alexander really proved through the facts, which are stubborn things--that if you study history and you read the history of the Senate, you understand there is a purpose for the cloture rule, there is a purpose for the filibuster, but there is also a purpose for being judicious in its use. I commend the Senator on his historic history lesson, his personal experiences as being one who has gone through the process himself when he was nominated to be Secretary of Education, and I appreciate very much his leadership on the Committee of Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. I will be brief, but I would like to speak for a minute about the nomination of Thomas Perez. The Labor Department is an important Department in the United States of America, and jobs are an important need we have in this country. We need an aggressive leader at the Department of Labor who is trying to get the Workforce Investment Act passed, trying to get people trained, trying to get wrongs righted, trying to be a leader. But what we do not need to have is one who throws up stumbling blocks to progress, stumbling blocks to jobs, and stumbling blocks to business.…”