Political Quotes

“I will in one moment, as soon as I finish replying to the Senator from Texas. So the notion this debt ceiling is something we can casually say whether it is approved and extended makes no difference--it makes a big difference. And whether it is included in this, in terms of the budget resolution, remains to be seen. But we could have a motion to instruct the conferees relative to the debt ceiling. I think that has already been discussed. What I am saying is: Why in the world aren't we sitting at a table this day, Democrats and Republicans, House and Senate, trying to work out our differences? I think most American people would ask: Isn't that why we sent you to Washington? Yet we run into these objections to unanimous consent requests. I yield to the Senator from Arizona for a question. Mr. McCAIN. Isn't it a little bizarre, this whole exercise we are going through, when some of us are asking to go to conference with a body that is dominated by the Members of our own party? We don't have, apparently, enough confidence the majority of the conference appointed by the other side of the Capitol will be a majority of Republicans and not Democrats? Isn't that a little bizarre? And really, what we are talking about here, I will be very honest with my colleague from Illinois, is a minority within a minority.…”