Political Quotes

“I took my colleague by surprise here. We just came down from a Rules Committee meeting, and I appreciate her yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, if you didn't have the pleasure of serving with Louise on the Rules Committee, it looks kind of strange to have the Louise and Bob Slaughter Post Office. I have been here only 8 years, but I can't recall us doing that after a couple out here. Perhaps it is done regularly, but to serve with Louise--you know, the Rules Committee, Mr. Speaker, goes into the wee hours of the morning; 2 a.m., 3 a.m., 4 a.m., the Rules Committee is working, and it is truly Louise and Bob Slaughter. Since my first day on the Rules Committee back in 2011, Louise took me under her wing. Yes, I was a young conservative Republican. Yes, she was an older--we can say, I think, honestly--liberal Democrat. She began building those partnerships with the young members of the Rules Committee with each and every committee meeting that took place. I don't know if she was the first one who said it to me, but she was certainly one of them. She said: You know, Rob, of your colleagues on the other side of the aisle, folks sometimes think that we are upset with each other and we are bad people. She said: I always tell folks, it is not that the people on the other side of the aisle are bad people. They are really good people. They just have some bad ideas. She would share that with me from time to time, that my ideas were amongst those bad ideas.…”