Political Quotes

“Madam President, we are going to go out in a few minutes, but this is my message to the House of Representatives, to the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives: Stop the games. The government is shut down. More than 70 percent of our intelligence community has been sent home. The National Institutes of Health has hundreds and hundreds of people home when they should be looking at their microscopes trying to cure diseases in America and around the world. Everyone in the world looks at the National Institutes of Health with jealousy, it is such a remarkably good institution. The President has said as to these games they are playing now--he sends these little bits and pieces over here--he will veto them. We won't allow them to pass here anyway. We want the government open. If they will pass the legislation to reopen the government, we will then talk about anything they want to talk about. We will have conferences on anything they want to talk about. And one of the things we would like to have a conference on is Senator Murray's budget that we have been trying to get to conference on for more than 6 months. The American people deserve more than they are getting from the House of Representatives, the so-called people's House. ____________________”