Political Quotes

“I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to address the Senate as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Arizona. Omnibus and Defense Authorization Bill Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, last night we saw another unusual election result. We see a ``businessman'' now in a very significant lead for the nomination of the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. As I watched the postmortems last night and this morning, we see again that many of those who voted cite as one of their primary--if not the primary--reasons distaste, anger, and frustration about Washington, DC, specifically the Congress of the United States, as well as the President. They believe they need somebody who is an outsider, someone who is not ``of the establishment.'' I guess that applies to anyone who is in elected office. Some of us have been surprised. Certainly no one predicted these outcomes, not only on the Republican side but on the Democratic side. We saw our colleague from Vermont engineer quite a stunning upset in the State of Michigan last night.…”