Political Quotes

“Mr. President, my dear friend--we have served together in the Congress for more than three decades--I care a great deal about him. He is a good legislator. But I think the only criticism I have is he must be reading my speeches because the speech he just gave is almost a carbon copy of what I have been saying for a long time: that we should not have this 60-vote threshold on everything the Republicans created. For him to come now and say we are going to have 50 votes, he should go back and reread my speeches, which maybe his staff has done. I move to table the Grassley amendment. I ask for the yeas and nays on my motion. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is on agreeing to the motion to table amendment No. 1195 offered by the Senator from Iowa. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No.…”