Political Quotes

“I also want the Record to be spread with the fact that this is not a time for anyone to claim victory. Certainly, in this process, I didn't get everything I wanted. I think the majority leader didn't get everything he wanted. But in the legislative process, building consensus is the art of compromise. I look back to the days when I tried cases. I found some of the best settlements were those where basically both sides were kind of unhappy about it, and I think that is what we have gotten. I certainly feel that this is a fair compromise procedurally with these intricate rules we have in the Senate. This is going to work well. I also want to repeat what the majority leader said. This is going to take a lot of work. We have a lot of amendments. This is not a two- or three-amendment bill. There are a lot of amendments. People on both sides of the aisle have been waiting for weeks to offer amendments. We are going to have to work our way through these. It is going to take a lot of cooperation. There may come a time during this debate that the managers are going to have to move to table some of these amendments. I hope we can arrange for time on these amendments. If we can't, we will do what has to be done in the Senate and move forward as expeditiously as we can. People have strong feelings about this bill on both sides of the aisle.…”