Political Quotes

“first of all I commend Senator Dole and those leaders on the other side of the aisle who yesterday made it possible to pass a clean CR. I am sorry we did not do it sooner. I wish it had been done sooner. But I commend and applaud the Republican leadership and those Members of the Senate who allowed this to go forward. Mr. President, I grew up in a small town in southern Nevada. When I was in the eighth grade, there were six kids in the class. That was one of our bigger classes. In the school at that time there was a bully. He was an eighth-grader and everyone in the school was afraid of him. If they were not afraid of him they worked something out with him, so that they could live with him. We rarely had new people come to school there, but there was a young boy who came to school, an eighth-grader, somewhat small in stature, who came from someplace in Arizona. His name was Gary. He was a quiet young lad. And he was pushed around by this bully for 3 or 4 days, a week, 2 weeks. Finally this young man said I have had enough of this and we are going to settle this. And this young boy agreed to fight the big bully. Everyone knew the bully would win, everyone except Gary. And they engaged in fisticuffs and the young man, like one of the heroes in the books we read as young kids, won the fight. The bully was all through. He no longer pushed anyone around. The reason I mention that, we kind of have a bully running around Congress.”