Political Quotes

“This vote is about more than these two throwaway provisions, which we know are not going to be taken seriously--and should not--by the Senate or by the country, but I am going to oppose it for another reason: because I used to be very proud of this institution. I used to be able to go through my community--and many of those who have served as long as I have know what it was like--and be proud to be a Member of Congress, to know that we had improved the lives of our constituents, that we had helped them build bridges and buildings and roads, that we could walk through the NIH campus being proud of what we had done for biomedical research, knowing we were improving lives in curing illnesses. We know what the government can do. This bill doesn't allow the government to do what it can to improve the lives of our people. We need to believe in this government again. We need to do what this Congress was meant to do. We need to fund the government adequately to be a first-class society with a first-class economy that can compete and beat anyone. We can't do that on the cheap, and that's why we ought to vote against this. {time} 1030”