Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Illinois. I continue to be amazed at his energy, in terms of leadership and what he does in Washington and his home State of Illinois. I appreciate the comments he has brought to this debate. I wish to say the vote we are going to have in a few minutes is going to decide whether we are going to change the way we help disaster victims. We are either going to do it the way we have pretty much always done it--when a disaster strikes, the Federal Government steps up; we are there. We encourage our Governors and mayors and local elected leaders to roll up their sleeves, work side by side with people, and take care of business, basically, get people out of harm's way, move them into shelters, comfort them, console them, keep families together, and then work with them in weeks and months and sometimes it takes years to get these communities back up and operating--or we are going to adopt the Republican sort of tea party/Cantor doctrine, which is ``my way or the highway,'' which is why we are having this debate a week before the end of the fiscal year, which says we are going to have to find money with each new catastrophe.…”