Political Quotes

“I understand the statement of the Senator from New Hampshire, even though I do not agree. We have agreed to accept the amendment tentatively--unless something has changed in the interim. I think there would be an agreement that we could accept this amendment. All I say to my friend is, if that is the case--and I think it is-- again, we are legislating by virtue of slow-walking. As I say, we have tried--and if they would like to tango, we will play music; if they want to rumba, we will do that. But we need to move this legislation. We have a lot of things to do. We are constantly told by the President there are things he would like done. We do our best to meet what the administration wants. For example, if we are going to be able to get to the bill where he is talking about consolidating different agencies, we are going to have to do that. We have to finish this first. Here it is Wednesday at 4 o'clock at night. We have had one vote today--that is all I remember--and we are not able to go ahead with anything else. As I indicated, the homeland security issue is something the President believes we should do. The majority leader wants to do it. We cannot do it like this. Now we want to get to the military construction bill tonight. I don't understand what we can do to be more cooperative and move things along. It is not as if we are asking the impossible.”