Political Quotes

“my friend, the Republican leader, comes before this body today and says we should do our campaign speeches next year when the world knows my friend has said his No. 1 priority in this Congress is to defeat President Obama. We have had on the Senate floor for the last 10 months a campaign speech every day directed by my friend and his Republican colleagues in his caucus doing everything they can to make President Obama look bad and doing nothing to help our economy. Their goal is to do everything they can to drag down this economy, to do anything they can to focus attention negatively on the President of the United States in hopes the minority leader can get my job, perhaps, and that President Obama will be defeated. So let's not talk about campaign speeches on the Senate floor. Let's talk about reality. I do not believe we should be concerned about a piece of legislation that asks the richest of the rich to pay a few pennies of their vast fortunes to put people like my friend back to work. That is what this is all about. The American people agree with what we are doing. We are trying to have this government involved in things that create jobs, not slogans, not ``let's get rid of those regulations'' or do we believe in God or that kind of stuff. That has not created a single job. What we want to do is create jobs.…”