Political Quotes

“when President Bush was elected, he said that he wanted to be a uniter and not a divider. We took him at his word. The last 4 years have not worked out well. There has not been much unity in Washington, but a lot of divisive matters come before us and the tone has not been good. The day after this last election when the President was reelected he called me when I was in Las Vegas and we had a very pleasant meeting on the telephone. He said he wanted to get along. He wanted to set a better tone in Washington. This past Wednesday, the State of the Union Message was given. The President said the same thing there--he wanted to get along, to cooperate. Today, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, ``Rollcall,'' has a front page story: ``RNC Turns Up Heat on Reid.'' It is a big story. It says among other things that they are sending out a 13-page research document, the RNC, the Republican National Committee, ``a 13-page research document today to roughly 1 million people . . . detailing Reid's . . .''--what they don't like about me, saying what they want to do is just like they did to Daschle. I don't think the President of the United States can say one thing and then do something else and get away with it. Is this how he wants to be a uniter, not divider? He cannot distance himself from the Republican National Committee. The Republican National Committee is his committee. He picks the chairman. He picks everybody there. He raises the money for it.”