Political Quotes

“Well, you know, the thing that strikes me--and maybe it's because I'm an engineer and I see it this way. For most Americans I know, if you've got this big hole in the middle of the gulf and if it's pouring out all of this oil all over the place, the reaction of most people is, Well, let's fix it. You know? Let's get the job done. Whether you believe in big government or in little government, what you want to do as Americans is to have this ``can do'' attitude. Well, we made a problem. Now we've got to get in and fix it. We've got to figure out what we did wrong. We've got to make sure we don't make those mistakes again, and we're going to move forward. I don't like being negative. I like fixing problems, and I know you're the same kind of temperament. We've been kind of complaining about the fact of a vacuum of leadership in the administration, and it's a vacuum that's evident in the gulf oil spill. It's evident in Afghanistan, and it's evident in a lot of policies.”