Political Quotes

“I am happy to have an opportunity to speak for a minute, particularly following my good friend, the Senator from Alabama. He and I have worked on so many issues. It shows one day you can work together and agree on something and the next day you can have different points of view. He and I worked successfully on the RESTORE Act. We worked on the FAIR Act where we can get a portion of our revenues to bring back to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, from offshore oil and gas production. I have to say I have enjoyed working with him many times over the years we have been in the Senate. Tonight I take issue with some of the things he said. To recapitulate, with much due respect, if everything the Senator said about the Affordable Care Act was actually factual--and it is not--if everything he said about the act was true, this time and method of shutting down the government to prove his point is still wrong. You should not hold Federal employees, the economy of the United States, the governments of the United States--Federal, State, or local which will be affected by this--hostage because you agree or think that the Affordable Care Act is a bad act. It is the wrong method and it is the wrong time for that debate. That is the issue. They are on the floor debating whether the Affordable Care Act is good or bad. This is not the debate we are having tonight.…”