Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the President of the United States, in the presence of Senator McConnell, Senator Durbin, Senator Kyl, and the House leaders, said to all of us: No President in history has spent as much time as I have on a compliant basis--meaning with leaders--trying to come up with some effort on this budget problem we are having today. The President has spent hours, days, and weeks of his time working on this. As we know, he believed he had--as I understand it--two tentative agreements with the Speaker. The Speaker backed out of both of those. The President--and I have not spoken to him this morning, but I did several times yesterday--is willing to work with anybody who can give him a proposal. That is my point today. As I said earlier--a letter is coming, terrific--I have not received it yet, but I am sure it is coming. The Republicans say they will not vote for my legislation. What will they vote for? Do they have any ideas? Let me know. I will be happy to work it in. We have gone so far as to even accept the Republican bill we got from the House as a shell. Nobody has to worry about it being my bill. If we work something out, it will be the Boehner bill, if that makes everyone happy. Mr. McCONNELL. If my friend will yield, I think the answer is a bill the President agrees to sign. That is what we were trying to achieve last weekend. We don't have time to ping-pong stuff across the Hill anymore.…”