Political Quotes

“I have been working with the two sponsors of this legislation. They have agreed to take my amendment. I have spoken with the majority and they say, no, they didn't want it to be done tonight, maybe tomorrow. I would simply say that we in good faith have worked, as I told the majority leader I would do, to try to move this bill along. Moving this bill along does not mean they are only going to be happy if we offer amendments that they like. The Senator from California in good faith offered this amendment. Whether people like it or not, if we are going to move this Energy bill along, we have to vote on it in some way. But it is my understanding that tonight nothing is going to happen. It is pretty obvious nothing is going to happen. There has been nobody here. There has been nobody here to oppose her amendment. Of course, no other amendments can be offered until this one is set aside. I just want the record to so reflect at a later time, when people come and say, we should try to move this bill along, and there have been statements on the floor made by the manager and the majority leader that they wanted to finish this bill this week. I was asked at lunchtime, how did I feel about finishing the bill this week. I said to the reporters asking me: When you step back a little bit, there is about as much chance of our finishing this bill this week as my turning a back flip here in front of the two of you.”