Political Quotes

“Mr. President, downtown this morning one of the Republican Senators whose name I won't mention said, meeting with a number of people downtown--this Republican Senator said: There is a lot of frustration within the Republican caucus about blocking motions to proceed. Of course, there is. The Republicans don't like it. Why do they continue to do this? We want to legislate on this important piece of legislation. It is not only a doctors fix, it is a fix to our health care delivery system. I am disappointed very much that the Nelsons of the world, the Baucuses of the Senate world can't work together in a bipartisan basis. They want to. I received a call before lunch, before I went to our policy luncheon, from a Republican Senator. He said: Are you going to fill the tree? I said: Of course, I am not going to fill the tree. Why would I? He said: OK. I will vote with you. So I know at least we have one Republican vote. He told me he is going to vote with us on cloture. I hope others would follow with that. In 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson traveled from Washington, DC to Independence, MO to join former President Harry Truman in Harry Truman's hometown of Independence, MO. The purpose of the trip and the meeting between the current and former Presidents was to sign into law a bill Harry Truman had conceived and Johnson had championed. The new law created Medicare.”