Political Quotes

“Madam President, I wish to begin by thanking Leader Reid for his very kind comments regarding the work that is going into this bill. It has been my pleasure and honor to help lead a team, actually, which the Presiding Officer has been a part of, as well as Ms. Cantwell, the Senator from Washington; Senator Murray; Senator LeMieux from Florida; and many others. Senator Cardin, who I know is on the floor, is an outstanding member of the Small Business Committee and a long-time advocate of small business, serving many years in the House of Representatives, and now brings his expertise to the floor of the Senate. I like having bulldogs on my committee and he is one of them and I greatly appreciate his support. Let me be very clear that in 1 hour, we will come to the end of a very long, important public and open debate on the best way we can help Main Street. This bill is not about Wall Street. We have had enough of those. This bill is not about big corporations; they take up 80 percent of the agenda in this place on any given day. This bill is about the 27 million small businesses that need the Members of the Senate to stand up for them today. If we can stand up for small businesses today, they will stand up for us and lift this country out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. I want to repeat that. It will not be the big banks that do this. It will not be the big international firms that do this.…”