Political Quotes

“I want to start by thanking the senior Senator from Virginia both for advancing a nomination that we will vote on this afternoon and for his comments about Gina McCarthy. She is, as the Senator says, a quite remarkable person, and she will be a wonderful director of the Environmental Protection Agency. I very much appreciate the Senator's comments about her, and I know Ms. McCarthy does as well, and the people of Massachusetts do as well. I rise today to do something very simple. I ask my colleagues to give a simple vote to the President's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency. This is not fancy or ambitious, it is just a basic principle of good government in our constitutional system. When the Founders of our Republic came together to write the Constitution, they knew the President would need help in administering this great and expansive Nation. Without help, without a government that was staffed, justice would not be established, our common defense would be threatened, and the blessings of liberty we hoped to secure through our laws would go unfulfilled. The Founders of our Republic gave to the President the task of nominating individuals to serve and gave us the responsibility to advise on and consent to these appointments. For more than 200 years this process has worked. Presidents over the years have nominated thousands of qualified men and women who were willing to serve in key executive branch positions.…”