Political Quotes

“due to the good work of my friend from Mississippi and others, on both sides, here is what we are going to do. There has been a point of order raised against the Dorgan amendment, and that has been sustained. So that amendment will fall. And in the order of amendments filed, Senator Vitter's is at No. 11 or 12; OK? Senator Vitter, when he had his conversation with Senator Cochran, Senator Murray, and me, was under the impression he could still modify his amendment. We thought differently. It was just a misunderstanding. Maybe we have been around here too long--I shouldn't say ``we.'' Maybe I have been around here a long time and just accept things for the way they appear to be and not sometimes the way they are. Senator Vitter has said there was nothing nefarious in what he did. He just assumed he could automatically modify that. And under the rules, he could. So we will go back right where we were. No one is accusing Senator Vitter of anything that is illegal or unethical. It was simply a misunderstanding among the four of us. So anything I have said earlier today, based on my misunderstanding of him and what his thoughts were, just forget about them because based on the conversation I have had with him in the last few minutes, that wasn't the case. So I shouldn't have been as upset, and Senator Murray shouldn't have been as upset as she was. Senator Cochran was his usual stoic self trying to lead us in the right direction, which we didn't go.”