Political Quotes

“I have spent a lot of time today with the President's Chief of Staff, Josh Bolten. I have said before, he is a very pleasant man. We worked for a long time today trying to work ourselves through the nominations. I think we made great progress. I think we have teed things up to do even more when we come back after 2 weeks. To show my good faith, when Mr. Bolten said he wanted to work with us, I approved Mr. Filip, who the Attorney General said was very important to him. Judge Filip left a Federal judgeship and is now acting as the Attorney General's Chief of Staff, for lack of a better word. So we have made progress. And even through this that we have done today, I, in good faith, threw in some people I thought were important, even though we did not have them done--and that was not part of the original deal--and that was to confirm the head of the Internal Revenue Service. But we have done that.”