Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we would be very happy in this institution if just the Speaker of the House and the majority leader could work together. There was a deal over the weekend. The Speaker of the House accepted the Senate's version of that agreement only to discover in a conference call that he had to back down. The chairman of the Ways and Mean Committee, my friend, he doesn't believe what they're doing here for one moment. They're courting disaster. This is the season of Advent and Christmas for Christians. Chanukah begins today. It is the quest for light in our lives, to enlighten the American people as to what is taking place here today; 160 million Americans are going to lose this tax cut. Organized labor and management, they do this all the time. You have a cooling-off period. You get to a more benign time, and you negotiate in good faith. You've seen what's happened here. A radical element has seized the Republican Party. The Senator from Massachusetts, Senator Brown, is on the front page of the Boston Globe today criticizing his own party. Dean Heller criticizing his own party. Richard Lugar criticizing his own party. We're arguing today about unemployment benefits in this season for members of the American family who are going to lose those benefits. We're arguing about a tax cut for middle-income Americans today, 160 million strong; for doctors who care for the most vulnerable amongst us, the Medicare patients over their reimbursement rates.…”