Political Quotes

“Mr. President, let me again state words I did not make up. John McCain--he is actually paraphrasing what Albert Einstein said: The definition of insanity is someone who keeps doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That is what John McCain said. Is that the definition of insanity-- voting on the same bill over and over again and expecting a different result? Jim Inhofe: I think three is enough. Jeff Flake: We can go through the motions, sure, but I don't think we are fooling anybody. Another Republican said: I wish we could take no for an answer. There is bipartisan support to move forward on a freestanding bill that sends Homeland Security funding directly to the President. We want to do that. That is what should be done. That is regular order. If the Presiding Officer and the rest of the Republicans want to come and debate immigration, we are willing to do that. That is what my consent request calls for. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, as my good friend the Democratic leader reminded me for 8 years, the majority leader always gets the last word. So let me say again that the consent request that I offered, to which the Democratic leader objected, was unanimously approved on our side. What it would do would be to set up an order for amendments, rotating from side to side, which is exactly the open amendment process the Democratic leader seems to feel somehow we are preventing.…”