Political Quotes

“I wish to thank and congratulate Senator Corker for his extraordinary work in reaching this moment where we have brought to the floor of the Senate a bill that deals with congressional oversight of the nuclear discussions and agreements taking place between the P5+1, our negotiating partners in Iran. It was just 3 weeks ago that the framework was announced by the White House and that Senator Corker and I started our discussions to see whether we could find a common path forward on a bill which, to say the least, was very controversial; a bill which the President of the United States had threatened to veto; a bill in which there were Democrats and Republicans lined up on different sides of this issue, and it appeared just about impossible that we would be able to reach a bipartisan agreement on a path forward for the legislation. Senator Corker exercised the greatest leadership and diplomacy. He mentioned all the members of our committee. Each of those members has pretty strong views on this issue. This was not a simple matter of people saying: Gee, I will just yield to the thoughts of others. The only way we could reach this moment was to ask and solicit and listen to each member of the committee, and that is what Senator Corker did. He encouraged me to do the same in regard to not just the Democratic members, because Senator Corker talked to some of the Democratic members and I talked to some of the Republican members. We had to have that type of confidence.…”