Political Quotes

“The Senator from Texas will have the floor. I just have a brief comment. I have known my friend, the senior Senator from Arizona, since 1982 when we were both elected to Congress. His record of public service speaks for itself. But I would say to him, and to everyone within the sound of my voice, we didn't vote on Libya, this important resolution that had been worked on so hard by the distinguished Senator from Arizona and the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, because I was told we wouldn't get any votes from the Republicans because they wanted to focus on the deficit. My friend also recognizes, as he said, that there is work going on behind the scenes, and that is true. There has been a lot of work this week that took place as a result of our being here that would not have taken place but for the fact that we are in session. We know a lot of the work we accomplish here is not with votes. One reason we have not been having a lot of votes in recent months is because we can't get things on the Senate floor. We have been stopped by my Republican friends. There are meetings going on with the White House and with the Speaker, a multitude of meetings there, meetings going on between Members of the Senate and Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives. So I would say to everyone here it is good we were in session this week. I haven't heard a single person who is not in Congress complain about our being here. It is important we are here.…”