Political Quotes

“Mr. President, everyone knows that numbers--we can show anything we want with numbers. The fact is there has been slow-walking done on the President's nominations, and we can look at how they do that. It has been interesting. It is a new way of doing things around here. A nominee comes up and what the committee does is submit hundreds and hundreds of questions. One of our nominees got 1,000 questions in writing the person had to respond to. That has never happened before. We have all of these ways of stalling. I know the Senators from Wyoming want to vote on and have spoken to me about Gregory Alan Phillips to be a circuit court judge for the 10th Circuit. Let's do it right now. Let's do him today. The Wyoming Senators shouldn't have to wait. That is why I ask unanimous consent that we do--I am sorry. I like him, but the man on whom we are going to invoke cloture graduated law school with my son. He is a fine man, but I am not the only one who messes up his name. He was a basketball player in Kansas. He said his parents came to all of his games and they cringed every time his name was pronounced because it is a hard name to pronounce. I ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by me, the Senate proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No.…”