Political Quotes

“in baseball you have seen the teams pile onto each other. That only happens on one occasion, generally, in baseball, which I understand quite well. One of the pitcher's weapons is to throw a ball inside, and that happens all the time to keep the batter loose. But you never throw at someone's head. That, in effect, is what happened here, and that is why we have had the Senators rallying here because, in effect, someone threw a ball at the head of one of our Senators, and that is not right. I appreciate very much Senator Dodd, whom we all know is a close personal friend of Senator Kennedy--I would expect nothing less--defending his close personal friend. But he also defends the institution itself. He is in the process not only of defending his close personal friend but the institution. As we have said, people who deliver a message that this administration doesn't like are attacked. There is no better example of that than Senator Daschle, who has been attacked personally with TV ads being run against him in his own State by people who are just voicing the administration's line. There have been many other ways he has been attacked. When it comes to rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure--the electric grid, the water supply, the highways--I think there are a number of questions that need to be answered for the American people. People may not have liked how Senator Kennedy phrased his objection to what has gone on and what is going on, but he said it. He raised issues.”