Political Quotes

“I agree with the Republican leader that it is important that we get the FAA bill done as soon as possible, but I would just have everyone reflect--when we were in the majority, we tried to bring up the FAA bill, and that went on for weeks and weeks, with unnecessary filibusters. The FAA came to a screeching halt. As we have said, if you are a responsible minority, you work to get things done. That is what we have done. We have worked hard with the majority to come up with an FAA bill we can support. So I hope everyone understands that obstruction doesn't work. We understand that. That is why we have tried to be as collegial as we can be on legislation. I just finished my ``Welcome to Washington'' this morning. A little boy asked me: How do you get things done? I said: Well, you know, things in Congress are done just like in life. I have had the good fortune in my time in public service, my time in Congress, to be able to have things with my name on them, bills that have passed, but I have never ever gotten something that I wanted--it was always a compromise. We always have had to compromise to get something passed. Frankly, that is the way life is. Life is a time where we work with people to try to get along to work things out. That is the way things used to be done here, but with the untoward obstruction during the Obama years, it has been difficult to get things done. So I agree that the FAA bill is something we need to pass.…”