Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from Kansas. I am glad he mentioned his own personal experience and our experiences together. It is more than about the Senator from Indiana or the Senator from Kansas. It is about this institution. It is about the future of the Senate. What kind of a body are we going to be? Are we going to be the Senate which has been the Senate for 225 years, with the rights of the minority being able to be expressed? How the majority leader can look across the aisle and say: The former chairman of the Agriculture Committee, the former Secretary of Agriculture can't have a say in the farm bill. It is a treasure trove of experience, it is a treasure trove of knowledge of the whole agricultural sector, and the majority leader whimsically just simply says: Because I am in power and I can tell you what you can do and what you can't do, forget it. Forget your adjustments to this. But that leads us right into the most egregious power grab of all, and that was when, under total Democratic control both in the House and the Senate and at the Presidency in White House, Democrats decided they were going to tell us how we should reshape our health care system and readjust one-sixth of the entire U.S. economy and, by the way, we have all this expertise--or we think we have this expertise--and we will wrap all this up in one 2,000-plus page bill and we will run it down your throats without any input from the other side. Oh, we had input.…”