Political Quotes

“I want the right tone set here. I don't want this to be an adversarial process. This is not a battle between Reid and McConnell. The votes show what happened. It doesn't take Einstein to figure that one out. Republicans didn't vote for cloture. They hadn't had enough. What is enough? I don't know what is enough. One of the elements that hasn't been mentioned here tonight--but only in passing, because I want to set the right tone--this is the President's bill. Last year, we passed the Democratic immigration bill. We passed it with help from some courageous Republicans. Here, part of those courageous Republicans met with some very strong Democratic Senators, working with Cabinet officers, to come up with a bill. They came up with a bill. The press has declared this to be the grand compromise. I accept that term. Where are the President's men? Where are the President's people helping us with these votes? We are finished with this for the time being. As we have been for days, we are going to have a list for you right away. We should have it by 5 o'clock tonight. We will have it for you in the morning. We are very close. At some point, we are going to do this. Pretty soon, we will have enough votes so we can support cloture. We are prepared to vote for cloture but not right now. I want to finish this bill, but I can't do it alone. We can't do it alone. We did more than our share here tonight on cloture votes.”