Political Quotes

“I would say one final thing. There is a time when we need to work together. The Republican leader recognizes that; I recognize that. This is the time. We need to figure out a way to get from here to there. We are going to do our very best. I think our messages--we don't need to worry about those next week. We can come back and do that after the break. We really need to try to get this done for the American people. It would be good for the American people if we could do something on one of the major crises we have faced in our country, and that is this housing debacle. It is very difficult. Everyone knows that I do not throw a lot of bouquets to the administration, but I throw them a bouquet on their willingness to work with us on the supplemental because they were willing to bend a little bit here and there. I repeat, was it everything that I wanted, that we wanted? No, but a tremendous step forward. I compliment and I applaud the President and the people who worked with us to get to the point where we are. I would be ashamed to have to wait until after the Fourth of July to do this bill; that is, the supplemental appropriations bill, because even though what we are going to be voting on only deals with the GI bill of rights and the unemployment compensation and those other things, if we do not act, the war funding doesn't go forward.”