Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator for his statement and for his support and I certainly join in the comments and concerns that were just raised by my colleagues Senators McCain and Graham. Here is where we are. We are in this position where, frankly, as Senator McCain said, this is a charade. Both parties are acting out this play where we are going to have one vote on the Democratic alternative that is going to fail, and then we are going to have another vote on one Republican alternative that is going to fail. So I put pen to paper and came up with some other ways to cut spending, which comes to about $250 billion in savings over the next 10 years, in order to address sequester and also to have an alternative because I believe the American people see through this charade of what is going to happen today and that, ultimately, as prior speakers have said, the sequester was set up to be resolved in a way where we had alternative savings that did not undermine our national security and some of the core services that could be put at risk in the way the sequester is structured. I firmly believe, when we look at what has happened, this bill was ill-conceived from the beginning. I didn't support it. I didn't vote for it.…”