Political Quotes

“it seems to me that we can easily move to any of these other issues that the Senator and his colleagues have been discussing, which we all agree need to be addressed. We can easily move there if your side will agree to give up trying to stop the nomination of this one single judge. So one could say that those who want to hold the floor and focus on this nomination are willing to delay debate of other issues until we vote on this particular nomination, or that those who are filibustering--which is generally understood by the public as an act of stopping a procedure and moving to a vote--this particular nomination are unwilling to move to these other economic issues. Would you not agree that it really comes down to the question of whether we want to agree to change the precedent of the Senate and open up investigation into these confidential documents of the Solicitor General's Office?”