Political Quotes

“I appreciate the remarks of my friend from Mississippi. I am going to start the process today. I am going to file cloture on a bunch of nominations, and those votes will occur next week when we schedule them. I would be happy to see if there is a way I can meet with a few Senators. I have already done that with a few Republican Senators, and I am happy to see if there is a way of getting us together. We had a nice caucus together not long ago led by Senator McCain, which was really memorable, but I listened to a bunch of them. I say to my friend, if you are so concerned--and I know you are-- about the process, I think you need to take a look at where you are. About Cordray, I am so tired of hearing this tweaking: All we need is to tweak this a little bit and we will let you have it. I repeat, I say to my friend, that the tweak is to take away his ability to exist. That is not a tweak; that is further obstruction and distraction from what a law we have is meant to do. The NLRB, all the happy-talk I hear here--and I don't say that to disparage anyone--we will be happy to help you with that, but get rid of those two people. No one questions their qualifications. And I am happy to hear my friend here suddenly so enthused with that court decision. The court decision doesn't stop us from doing anything. The court decision is something that says that we can do whatever we want to do. We are a legislative branch of government. We don't have to follow what the Supreme Court does.…”