Political Quotes

“I am not going to have a long conversation this morning with my friend the Republican leader, other than to say this: My speech speaks for itself. I wrote it; no one else wrote it. It is my speech, and I want everyone to look at that. I want Republicans and Democrats to look at it. I also want the record to be clear: This man, on whom we are going to vote this afternoon at 1 p.m. or 2 p.m.--whatever time the consent agreement suggests--has been waiting 1 year. So the Republican leader can talk about how quickly it came, but this man has been waiting for a year. I went through the statistics, and I will not go over them again. I hope things work out in this Senate so we don't have to go through anymore procedural battles, but things are not working well. I went through the statistics, and they are in my speech. I don't object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Republican leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Let me make sure everybody understands where we are. Let's have no misunderstandings. What the majority leader is doing is trying to get 51 votes to break the rules of the Senate and change the rules of the Senate. We know what he is doing, and let's make no mistake what the stakes are: He is threatening this institution, which he elected, in part, to protect, by manufacturing a crisis that does not exist. As we all know, in the Senate every Senator has the ability to impact how we do business.…”