Political Quotes

“Mr. President, yesterday the minority leader came to the floor to disparage the work of the Senate Judiciary Committee and also disparage the work of the Senate as a whole. And, of course, as he does from time to time, he launched into a personal attack against me. Now, that is OK. I don't intend to return the favor. I love Senator Reid. I don't want to talk about the nuclear option and the tremendous damage that did to the Senate, not to mention the years and years that Democratic Senators had to endure his leadership without even being able to offer an amendment. There is at least one Democratic Senator, who was defeated in the last election, who never got a chance to get a vote on an amendment during the entire 6 years he was in the Senate. We all know that is how some people act when they don't get their own way, but childish tantrums are not appropriate for the Senate. I think if my friend Senator Biden had been in the Chamber yesterday, he would have said--as we have heard him say so many times--``that is a bunch of malarkey.'' I didn't come to the floor today to talk about the minority leader. However, I did want to follow up on my remarks from earlier this week on the Biden rules. Now, in fairness, Senator Biden didn't just make these rules up out of thin air. His speech, back in 1992, went into great historical detail on the history and practice of vacancies in Presidential election years.…”