Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we have now three hours until 10 o'clock. I hope that during that period of time, people will do whatever they need to do to make sure they get anything they want in, whatever they are trying to get. The reason I say that is that we are going to continue, as the leader has indicated, working on a way to get out of here tonight. If not, we will get out of here tomorrow. I hope that--if someone has something they want to talk to me about, I will be happy to carry that message to anyone, including the Republican leader, but I think right now we have 3 hours to sit around, stand around, and talk about this and find out if there is anything more that can be done. I hope that at 10 o'clock, we will be in a position to let everybody know if we are going to have a vote before 1 o'clock in the morning because these votes will take at least an hour, the three votes that are scheduled, so that means 11 o'clock. By waiting around, you are delaying things by a couple of hours at a fairly late time at night. I think by now everyone has a pretty good idea of how they are going to vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.”