Political Quotes

“I will yield in just 1 second. This is what I talked about earlier. We have been going 5 years with this--5 years--trying to stop anything Obama wants to do. Obama would like to see this passed and so would a bipartisan group of Senators. But for 5 years we have put up with this. It doesn't matter what it is. If Obama wants it, they are against it. We can have all this sweet talk about how the Senate shall operate. The Senate shall operate by allowing legislation to go forward. This is a perfect example but, no, no--I have told them, if they want a vote on Keystone, they have a vote on Keystone. That is not good enough for them. They add four or five other amendments. It is never quite enough. So we can see what is going to happen. They are going to let us on the bill today, and they are going to say: Because we don't get our amendments, we are not going to vote to get off the bill. It has happened time and time again. We waste hours on this. With all this happy talk about how the Senate should operate-- remember, we changed the rules. Why did we do that? Because we had scores of judges that we had to wait for them to give us permission to move to. We changed the rules. We don't in any way apologize to anybody for having changed the rules. This is where we are. Legislation is at a standstill, and we have on the books now 140 nominations that are held up. They have held everybody up. We get a few here and a few there. But the one thing I can't hold up any more are judges.…”