Political Quotes

“Let me recount, briefly, the ups and downs--mostly downs-- of this legislation. I can remember months ago when my friend, Dr. Bill Frist, majority header of the Senate, stood right there and stunned me and most of America by saying: I support H.R. 810, stem cell research. That made me feel so good. I thought that we were going to see the end, we are going to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But I am sorry to say nothing has happened since then. We finally got a unanimous consent request before we had the Fourth of July recess. As the leader said, he would bring it up. And I understand he told the press on Monday he would be willing to do it sometime this work period. I hope that is the case. But no, the answer is we do not have a time yet to debate this legislation. It is not going to take a lot of time. It isn't a bill that is going to take days and days. We have 12 hours of debate. We could do it all in 1 day. I am willing to do it all in 1 day.”