Political Quotes

“my friend the Republican leader threw around words such as ``cynicism'' and ``hypocrisy.'' This speech my friend gave--I would suggest he walk into his office, his little bathroom in there, and look into that mirror because over that mirror he should be able to see the words ``hypocrisy'' and ``cynicism'' because the speech he gave was fervent with hypocrisy and cynicism. We have tried very hard since the first of the year to cooperate with the Republicans, and we have done it. On this bill which is before us now, the Defense authorization bill--it is a bill I will talk about a little later in more detail--this is a piece of legislation which the President said before it left the committee was going to be vetoed. He not only said it, he put it in writing. We cooperated. We allowed it to go on the floor without the normal filibuster and the motion to proceed that I had to approach when I led the Senate as the majority leader hundreds of times--hundreds of times. So we have cooperated. We haven't filibustered getting on the bill, as I mentioned, and we have allowed amendments to get pending and get votes. That is something the Republicans would not let us do when this bill came up the last 2 years. It is a major bill. The Republican leader said a couple years ago, and I quote, ``The Defense authorization bill requires 4 or 5 weeks to debate.'' That is what he said.…”