Political Quotes

“the highway bill has been worked on for months by Senator Boxer, who is the chairman, and the ranking member, Senator Inhofe. They have arrived at a conclusion. I had a conversation yesterday with Senator Inhofe, and they have worked out almost all of the details on the bill. We have to do something on this bill because it expires at the end of this year--the 1st of February, I believe. My friend, the Republican leader, whom I care a great deal about personally, is absolutely wrong. The American people support our approach. Seventy-six percent of the American people like it. People of all political definitions support it. Why? Because it is so fair. We are asking the top two-tenths of 1 percent of people who make money in this country to contribute a surtax of seven-tenths of 1 percent of money they make over $1 million. Job creators? I don't think so. The funding mechanism the Republicans use this time is in violation of the agreement we made last July. We have an agreement. We have cut domestic discretionary spending enough. That was the agreement we made. What they have done is come back to whack it more, which, I repeat, is going back on our agreement on how much we are spending on appropriations. Not only that, but the Republicans do what they have done time and time again. We all know we would be better off if we didn't have as many regulations as we have.…”