Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from South Carolina for yielding. He knows just how excited I am to be down here today. He knows how excited I am because, unlike what my colleague from New York suggests about accepting how the world is, today's a day where we decide: You know what? We can do better. We can do better. The million folks I represent back home in Georgia don't want to accept the way this body operates today. They want us to do better. I know, when this body passed this 1-year extension last December, they knew we were going to be back here today. For a year, we've known we were going to be back here today. To suggest if only you'll give us another 60 days we'll do better, that's the way this House has worked in years past. Yet this year--this year--this body has said, if these issues are so important to the American families--and they are--and that if these issues are so critical to the economy--and they are--why do we need another 60 days? Why not do it today? We know that it has to happen. We know that it's coming. Why can't we get together and do it today? Now, I tell you, I've studied majority politics in this body. Traditionally speaking, the majority, which the Republicans are, would just bring a bill to the floor and jam it through--my way or the highway. You've seen it. You've seen it when Republicans have done it, and you've seen it when Democrats have done it, and it could have happened that way again today. But what did the Rules Committee do?…”