Political Quotes

I, first of all, learned of this last Friday, when we were about to leave Congress for you know, the break to -- to go out and campaign.

This means it's a very bittersweet victory for House speaker Dennis Hastert, who threw some of his own political capital behind this bill.

I'm deeply sorry that this has happened. And the bottom line is that we're taking responsibility, because, ultimately, as someone has said in Washington before, the buck stops here.

If you let this thing spin out of control, Democrats are going to take back control of Congress and they're going to raise your taxes and grow the government.