Political Quotes

“I just returned from my State of Nevada. For example, I did an event that received a lot of attention dealing with gas prices. Gas prices are so significant. Nevada has the third highest gas prices in all the country. Unfortunately, we have been in second place on occasion. It is not unusual to drive by a service station in Nevada and see the three different prices and the bottom one is $3.40. The average price last week was $3.19 a gallon. What are we doing on the Senate floor today? No matter how a person feels about the marriage amendment, everyone knows it is not going to pass. It is not going to come close to passing. We voted on this a short time ago and got 48 votes. It takes 67 votes for a constitutional amendment to begin the process. This is not what the American people want to talk about. All you have to do is listen to the conservative talk shows, the liberal talk shows, read the newspapers, the liberal columnists, the conservative columnists. With rare exception, they say we are wasting the taxpayers' time doing this. We have a war in Iraq going on. Are we having a discussion on the war in Iraq, where yesterday 80 Iraqis were killed, 7 having their heads cut off and put in a marketplace in baskets? Are we talking about that? We have soldiers valiantly fighting every day over there, Mr. President. We have been struggling to get a supplemental appropriations bill completed. They need our help.…”