Political Quotes

“I say to my friend, this was the Great Compromise during the Constitutional Convention, where these visionary men, our Founding Fathers, worked out the difference between the House and the Senate. They did this purposely and specifically. I say to my friend, there are many issues here that are decided not by 51, not by 60, not by 67, but many issues take unanimous consent. In fact, most things we do in this body are by unanimous consent. All of us have to agree. We cannot commit to not having any filibusters, but we will exercise to the very best of our ability discretion, judicious discretion, because we think we are in a new day. We believe this is a new Congress, and we want to show the American people we can work together. And I say to everyone listening that I think we have proven that this year. We have worked on issues that have taken 15 years to get to the Senate floor. We know that many people on this side of the aisle did not particularly like the class action bill. We know that many people on this side of the aisle did not particularly like the bankruptcy bill, but we took 15 years of history and came here and did things the old-fashioned way. We had a bill on the floor, we offered amendments-- some failed, some passed--and moved on. Those bills are now law. People may not like that--some do not--but it shows we can work together here. My plaintive plea to every one of my 99 friends in the Senate is, let's work something out. Let's try to get along.…”