Political Quotes

“U2 has a song, ``Some Days Are Better Than Others.'' The lyrics go something like this: Some days are dry. Some days are leaky. Some days come clean. Other days are sneaky. Some days take less, but most days take more. Some slip through your fingers and onto the floor. Well, Mr. Speaker, today it is certainly threatening to slip through onto the floor. The House is apparently preparing for an unprecedented floor vote to hold a sitting Attorney General, the Nation's chief law enforcement officer, in contempt. The path that has led us to this sorry day is so long, so bizarre, so tortuous, so fantastical, so unbelievable that it stretches the imagination of individuals to try to make some sense out of our actions. The Oversight Committee started out investigating the so-called ``gun walking'' which was initiated under the Bush administration. The Department of Justice produced thousands of pages of documents. The Attorney General testified nine times, and the committee found no wrongdoing by the Attorney General. So the committee majority turned its attention to a February 4, 2011, letter sent by the Department of Justice to Senator Grassley, initially denying allegations of gun walking. The DOJ acknowledged the errors in the letter to Senator Grassley and provided more than 1,300 pages of internal documents showing how the letter came to be drafted.…”