Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to speak to the issue which has been considered on the floor today by my colleagues. I thank, especially, the Senators from Utah, Oregon, and Colorado, as well as many others, for their leadership in discussing the procedures of the Senate. When I went home over the break, I spent my time back in Illinois with my wife in my hometown of Springfield and a lot of time around the house and a lot of things had to be considered. I left the decisions of war and peace behind in Washington, DC, and went home to face the real decisions: Are we going to change our cable TV service? Are we paying too much for the Internet? Things that my wife finally put in front of me and said: We need some decisions here. As I considered those weighty decisions, particularly when it came to cable television and what we would receive in Springfield, I could not help but reflect on the fact that, similar to many Americans, we like to have C-SPAN so we can follow the House and Senate. You may know in West Virginia, as I know in Illinois, there are people who are obviously suffering from insomnia who watch C-SPAN all the time and find it very restful and sleep inducing. If they watch the Senate, it is something else. It is not only sleep inducing because of so little activity on the floor of the Senate, it is, in fact, an unfair economic situation that someone is paying a cable TV bill for C-SPAN covering the Senate when we do so little. They ought to get a refund.…”