Political Quotes

“no matter how many times my friend the Republican leader says ``break the rules to change the rules,'' it doesn't make it true because it is not true. We are going to follow the rules. I would also say this: I was stunned by reading in a couple of the newspapers that a couple of Republican Senators said, paraphrasing: We are going to make things really tough around here. We are going to make things so bad if they take away our motion, causing me to file cloture on a motion to proceed. We are going to make things really difficult. Really difficult, when the Republican leader said his No. 1 goal in this Congress was to defeat President Obama? And that is how they have legislated. Everything was to the effort of making sure Barack Obama did not serve again. There are a myriad of examples. Take this one. This is great to show how hard they worked to put the country on the right track. With about 1 million firefighters, police officers, and schoolteachers being laid off, we thought: We have had some decent--not wonderful--growth in the private sector and have gotten back millions of jobs. We decided, let's do something in the public sector that would really help stimulate the economy.…”