Political Quotes

“I want to be as respectful of my friend as I need to be, but let's speak reality. We are in a Congress that is dominated by the Republicans. They control the House by a large margin, and they control the Senate by a large margin. The legislation that is before this body was proposed, legislated, and brought to us by Republican leadership. It is their legislation, not ours. I didn't spend all my time in my office visiting with people today; I watched the speeches. It was stunning--the nonreality that is facing my Republican friends. They dwelled, a number of them, on what is going on in the Middle East. Not once--not once--did anyone mention the worst foreign-policy decision ever made by our great country, the invasion of Iraq. It has destabilized that part of the world for a long, long time to come. For what? So my friends can blame all the problems in the Middle East on the President, but they are blaming the wrong person. We can't take what we have because they want to rewrite history. History is as it is, and people are writing history as it is. Now the part of history that they are trying to rewrite is history that is taking place in this body. We offered, on two separate occasions, publicly before the American people and in this body: Do you want a vote? We will let you have a vote.…”