Political Quotes

“My colleagues, our neighbors, our friends sent us here to be responsible and to come to the aid of our country at a time of crisis. Our country is at such a time now. Our people confront uncertainty and fear, and they're looking to us for the courage to compromise and act to prevent default and to prevent gridlock and irresponsibility. Yesterday, we learned that investors in American stocks lost more than $400 billion when just a few days ago Speaker Boehner said he could not compromise with President Obama. Not withstanding the remarks of my friend from California, the chairman of the Rules Committee, who talks about a bipartisan compromise, I tell my friend, you have not moved a single centimeter towards compromise with our side of the aisle, not a single centimeter. And what do we see in the United States Senate, my friends? We see a majority leader of the United States Senate who has a President with him. So, yes, you control one-third, and you control over 40 percent so you can stop things from happening in the Senate, but the people aren't looking to us for what we can stop; they're looking to us for what we can do, for what we can do to make our country healed at this point in time. So what has Senator Reid done with this bill that you introduced-- guaranteed to fail. This is the second time you have put a bill on the floor to extend the debt limit guaranteed to fail.…”