Political Quotes

“this is one of the rare times that we have been able to move forward on a bipartisan basis. The procedural aspects of this immigration debate are over with. The two leaders want a comprehensive immigration reform bill. What is going to be in it? I don't know and the Republican leader doesn't know. But, Mr. President, this is going to take a lot of hard work. I want to extend to the majority leader my appreciation and my acknowledgment of the difficulty of arriving at this point. It has been very hard for both of us. And as the time went on after the Easter recess, it didn't get easier, it got harder. But I do believe that this is what the Senate is about, and we can move forward in a way that I think the country will acknowledge. There is a lot of hard work to be done, but we can do it well. I receive my fair share of criticism, as does the Republican leader. But I want everyone to know we try very hard to move things along. It is not easy with the political atmosphere we find in the country today, but we have done this on this bill, and it has been extremely difficult. I don't want to sound like poor me, but that has been pretty hard to do. I will always remember the difficulties we have had, but also things such as this, as we know, in life bring people closer together. I think the majority leader and I have had--if we have talked about this bill once, we have talked about it 25 times.…”