Political Quotes

“it would be hard to travel to a university campus or to a chamber of commerce meeting or anyplace in the country, travel just to a supermarket and talk to people where they wouldn't all agree that the Senate is dysfunctional, has not worked well. To show how right they are is a statement made yesterday by John McCain. Now, Mr. President, John McCain and I have had our political differences, but no one--no one--can quibble with the fact that John McCain is an American patriot. He was a Navy aviator shot down in Vietnam, spent years--I think it was 6\1/2\ or 7 years--as a prisoner of war, 4\1/2\ of those in solitary confinement. He and I came to the House of Representatives together. I know how the House works. I served there. While I appreciate my friend the Republican leader giving me a minilecture on the House, I don't need one. I served in the House, and I know how the House works. And I know what John McCain said yesterday because I am reading a verbatim transcript from those proceedings, and here is what he said: . . . I apologize for what seems to have happened. Much to my dismay, it lends credence to the argument that maybe we ought not to do business the way we are doing here in the Senate. That is a direct quote from John McCain.…”