Political Quotes

“I am very proud of where the Senate is headed today. It has taken well over a year-and-a-half for this bill to finally come together, to come to fruition. There have been many committees of jurisdiction that actively participated in this process, Members who have accommodated other Members, and I am proud of the work product that we have been developing here. I especially want to thank, as we head toward what I hope is final passage later on this evening, my legislative director, Lauren O'Brien; my national security adviser, Brandt Anderson; Dan Cheever, who worked on Commerce Committee, all manner of work for me. They have worked tirelessly with Senator Schumer's staff and my colleagues on the Republican side to ensure that this day came about, and we got a positive outcome. Let me say a bit about this legislation. We Americans have always looked toward the frontier and forward to new horizons. Our ancestors chased them across a continent and to the sea. When the wilderness was no more, they followed them elsewhere--in workshops and laboratories and factories and on farms, in the air and beyond. Our spirit is restless. We prefer the difficult as Americans. We have never accepted limits or impossibilities in life. No, instead, we sought to cure disease to lift the human condition, to better understand the world around us, to constantly go faster and further in these and other endeavors.…”