Political Quotes

“I know there are some hurt feelings here, perhaps on both sides, because this hasn't been easy for me, either, but let's not dwell on that. But I want the record to reflect that the fact that we have to do things sometimes that are difficult doesn't mean Senator McConnell and I have any problems with each other. I want to make sure the record is clear in that regard. We will discuss later how we are going to move forward on other things. But here is my suggestion, unless someone has some objection. The time for cloture running out on this is sometime tomorrow afternoon. I don't know the exact time. I think it would be to everyone's interest that we would vote on this on Tuesday when we come back. We have a judge we could vote on who is already settled. We could vote on final passage on this, and then we will vote on the jobs bill that is up. Then what we are going to do is that night we will work to have an agreement that is arranged, because we don't have the time worked out on this, as to how much time. Under the rule, there is 60 hours. We are not going to use 60 hours on these three trade agreements. But everyone should understand we are going to finish the trade agreements on Wednesday. If that means people want to spend 20 hours debating one of them, they may have to spend all night Tuesday doing that, because we have some things here that we have made commitments to do. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, will the majority leader yield?”