Political Quotes

“I want to finish with two thoughts: One, we had the lowest drop in elderly poverty. We talked about that; the biggest drop in child poverty; and, the largest drop in the poverty rate of households in 30 years. There are statistics that relate to the State of Nevada. Bank lending increased by $10.5 billion. Home building increased by 25 percent per year during the years of President Clinton. Almost 5 times as much new manufacturing jobs were created; 261,000 workers are protected by family and medical leave. We have new police officers, and that is going up. A lot of good things have happened. What I say to my two colleagues on the floor today and the Presiding Officer is to build just briefly on what the Senator from North Dakota just said. I think with the Presidential election winding down and 5 or 6 weeks until it is over, I hope that, if we gain nothing else from our experiences during these past 2 years, we should recognize how much better things would be if we had a Congress that was willing to work, where you had a conference and where both parties were in on the conference; where instead of having the majority run roughshod over the minority you had people working together for the good of the country.”