Political Quotes

“Okay. I come from a family. I believe politics is a good thing, because we have differences, and you work them out on election day and the American people make a decision, except for when you do special redistricting. But usually you let it out on election day. And I believe in that. I don't have a problem with that. It's not about scoring points. There's differences. You don't support this. And I won't go through this. I was in the room when we negotiated this in 1997. When President Clinton proposed this, the Republican leadership at the time, and he said there will be no balanced budget without a children's health insurance program that had eye, dental and pediatric. The Republican leadership said at that point it was welfare. President Clinton said there will be no balanced budget agreement without this. Finally, you guys offered pediatric care but no eye and dental. And then the deal we cut was the SCHIP we have today. And the very flexibility that you oppose that our Governors are exploring was what you demanded back in 1997. But the original children health proposal wasn't a bipartisan agreement. It was President Clinton saying there will be no balanced budget agreement without 6 million children getting their health care. I believe that politics is a good thing, and that's what it proved.”