Political Quotes

“I say this to my friend and others listening. I want everybody to understand a little bit of the frustration I have. We all went through the battle on the FEMA bill. Everyone remembers that. People in the dark bowels of this building someplace typed that bill up. They made a mistake and had a comma in the wrong place--a comma. I asked consent, because that was a technical correction, to get that corrected. There were press releases out already from my Republican friends: We are not going to agree to any consents on anything. You talk about frustration--there is plenty of it to go around. I want to try to end this on a high note. I love this institution. I have devoted most of my life here in this building--not only as a long- time Member of the House and Senate, but I lived here while going to law school. I worked in this building. I was a cop here. I love this building and this institution. I don't want to do anything to denigrate the institution. Maybe there is blame to go around, and I think there probably is. But frustration builds upon frustration and, as a result of that, we have situations such as this. So here is my suggestion. I think just as we had a cooling off period, as we indicated that we would on that FEMA CR--we had a cooling off period, and the Republican leader and I agreed that would be the right thing to do, and we then came back and worked something out. We did it very quickly. It wasn't to everybody's satisfaction.…”