Political Quotes

“My way or the highway. That's what you just said, Mr. Leader. I understand that concept. Very frankly, in my view, we have agreement. We have agreement on something that you won't bring to the floor, and it is that all middle class, working Americans will not get a tax hike, all of them. And everybody, up to $250,000 of income, will have no tax increase. But we have a big deficit and a big debt, and we need to pay our bills. We have a debt limit vote coming up at the end of this year. Very frankly, we took the country to the brink of default and very adversely affected our economy by undermining confidence. You talked a lot about confidence in the last campaign, Mr. Leader. I agreed with you. I think we need to instill confidence, not undermine confidence. But I will tell my friend that if you wanted to work together, as you've said on a number of occasions now, as for instance we did with the Export/Import bank, the bills that you sent over there, we didn't work together on. They were passed on a partisan vote, for the most part. Not all of them. And some votes were overwhelmingly bipartisan. And guess what happened? They became law. The President signed them. Export/Import bank, the jobs bill that you promoted and which I voted for. You said you want to work together. Now, it's interesting when you say ``work together,'' because what you say you're going to give us is a motion to recommit.…”