Political Quotes

“The Senate considered the budget--and that is an understatement. We voted on more than 100 amendments, as I mentioned a few minutes ago. It was hard. The votes were hard. The Senate passed its budget. It should now go to conference, that which the Senate passed. It is our budget. The Senator from Texas was on the losing side. He had his view and it lost, but now he wants us to agree by consent to adopt the losing side's view or else he is not going to allow us to go to conference. For more than two centuries, I repeat, the two bodies have been able to go work out their differences. The Senate passes something. The House passes something. You talk about regular order, that is it. We are able at that time to sit down and talk about the differences. The debt ceiling--he wants to talk about that. He wants to talk about taxes. We are happy to do that, but let's do it in the context of regular order. That is what we should be doing around here. My friend from Texas is like the schoolyard bully. He pushes everybody around and is losing, and instead of playing the game according to the rules, he not only takes the ball home with him but changes the rules. That way, no one wins--except the bully who tries to indicate to people that he has won. We are asking the Republicans to play by the rules and let us go to conference. I don't think it takes a lot of wizardry to figure out that we know how the American people feel about what they want done in this country.…”