Political Quotes

“I wish to commend my dear friend from California for returning us to reality. We are here to appropriate moneys to provide extraordinary relief, extraordinary assistance to those thousands of citizens of California who, not because of their shortcomings or faults, have suffered irreparable damage. That is why we are here. As the Senator has pointed out, we will be debating the defense budget. We will be debating the defense authorization bill. We will be debating the defense appropriations bill. We will be debating all the conference reports. We will have numerous opportunities to debate these issues that we have been spending time on. This measure should have been passed yesterday and gone into conference last night and we should be here adopting the conference report. That is the least we can do for our fellow citizens. Instead, we are wasting our time when we know we have time awaiting us in the very near future to discuss these matters in an orderly and reasoned manner. I, as a citizen of the United States, wish to apologize to the citizens of California.”