Political Quotes

“I wholeheartedly agree with my colleagues here this evening. While we may be repeating some of the same concepts and principles that we believe wholeheartedly in as an organization, the Blue Dogs, I hope folks take it within their consideration, because if we do not repeat what is important over and over, sometimes it is not taken in as it should be, so forgive us if we become too repetitive, but we are trying to do our best to emphasize what is important. We are here tonight when Congress is out of session; we have adjourned for the night. But we have continued to try to be here, missing our dinners and other social events that we, quite frankly, like to go to and get some business done too, but we believe enough in what we are emphasizing tonight to sacrifice that time to make sure, before this session is over and this Congress adjourns for the year, that we have done our best to try to indicate to the American people the true picture of the situation and how we think it should be resolved.”