Political Quotes

“I can remember when the Senator first came here 10 years ago, approximately. There was an issue dealing with the military. Mary Landrieu was a new Senator. She was over here, she had her desk on the other side, and she went on, and, wow, it was quite an impressive speech. For a long time after that, I called her Military Mary. The reason that it is such a memorable time for me is her good father, ``Moon'' Landrieu, was watching his daughter. I called him and told him what a great job she had done. Of course, he was very proud of all 10 of his children but especially that night of his daughter Mary. I have no problem with Mary Landrieu coming to the floor and doing what she thinks is appropriate. She is absolutely right. We have a lot of trouble now getting simple things done. On a bill like this, it used to be that we would have two managers, whip through all these amendments. We would just accept them. I mean, I listened to Senator Landrieu talk about the best interests of the child. Who in the world would oppose that? The problem we have is that if we get a lot of amendments pending, it will be hard to get rid of them.…”