Political Quotes

“Madam President, I know we have a vote scheduled at 12 noon on a nomination. I know that is but 1 of 100 nominations that are on the calendar awaiting action by the Senate. It is probably not very surprising that people do not think much of this place when we cannot get nominations through, we cannot get business done. But people should understand the reason there are 100 nominations waiting on this calendar is because the minority has decided to say no to everything, just to dig in their heels and decide they are not going to cooperate on anything. This afternoon I will again come to the floor and ask unanimous consent on the nomination of GEN Michael Walsh. I just wanted Senator Vitter from Louisiana to be aware that I intend to do that again. Let me say I am going to be back this afternoon to talk about the START treaty and also to talk about financial reform and a couple of issues that are important to me, particularly the issue of too big to fail and the issue of, what I call just gambling on naked credit default swaps. I will talk about both of those this afternoon. But when I come this afternoon, I am going to ask unanimous consent on the nomination or the promotion of General Walsh. Let me again describe why this is important. General Walsh is a decorated American soldier, served 30 years in the U.S. Army. He now commands a division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has served in wartime. He has served in Iraq.…”