Political Quotes

“Madam President, first, I wish to make a couple comments about what has just transpired on the floor of the Senate. For the third time, we had a vote, not on anything relating to the ingredients of a bill dealing with financial reform or Wall Street reform, just on the question of the motion to proceed to debate the bill. Just the motion to proceed, yes or no, shall we proceed to bring the bill to the floor and debate it? For the third day in a row, all the members of the minority voted, no, we will not even allow the Senate to proceed to debate Wall Street reform. It is unbelievable to me. In the shadow of yesterday's hearings, with one of the major investment banks of this country and the disclosure of e-mails deep from the bowels of that bank that clearly suggested they were peddling securities to clients and customers that they knew to be bad securities and also betting against the position of their clients, betting against a recovery for our country--in the shadow of all that, how on Earth can the minority decide we should not even move to debate Wall Street reform? I find it interesting we have people saying government cannot solve this. There is too much government, too much this, too much that. When we had suffered a Great Depression in this country, it was the Federal Government that took action to put in place some things to try to protect our country's economy and did so for about 60 or 70 years.…”