Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise in support of legislation we will later vote on this week, authored by the Senator from New Jersey, Mr. Menendez. As we all know, he has been championing this legislation for quite some time. He had the prescience and foresight to focus on this idea early on, and I applaud the hard work he has done to build support for it. I am also glad our leader, Senator Reid, scheduled a vote on it this week. I hope the bill will pass. I have heard that even a few of my friends from the other side of the aisle say they are considering voting for it. Nothing would be better, in terms of showing bipartisanship and giving the American people hope that we can come to a fair agreement on the budget, than to pass the legislation this week. In the last election, voters gave those of us who serve in this Chamber two distinct mandates. They told us to do two things at once, either one of which alone would be hard to do. First, and perhaps foremost, they said make the economy grow, create good-paying jobs, make sure of that the American dream which says the odds are that you will be doing better 10 years from today and the odds are that your children will do better than you. That is the American dream. Since the founding of our great Republic, that candle has burned brightly in the eyes of Americans, whose ancestors have been here since the Mayflower landed, as well as in the eyes of Americans who are just here for a generation or two and even new immigrants.…”