Political Quotes

“we have a long to-do list before the end of the year, and time is running short. We had hoped to make progress with the administration on these issues in a meeting this afternoon. Unfortunately, this morning, instead of leading, the President tweeted a blatantly inaccurate statement and then concluded: ``I don't see a deal.'' The President said: ``I don't see a deal'' three hours before our meeting, before he heard anything we had to say. Given that the President doesn't see a deal between Democrats and the White House, Leader Pelosi and I believe the best path forward is to continue negotiating with our Republican counterparts in Congress, instead. Rather than going to the White House for a show meeting that will not result in an agreement from a President who doesn't see a deal, we have asked Leader McConnell and Speaker Ryan to meet with us this afternoon. We don't have any time to waste addressing the issues that confront us. So we are going to negotiate with Republican leaders who may actually be interested in reaching a bipartisan agreement. If the President, who already earlier this year said that ``our country needs a good shutdown,'' isn't interested in addressing the difficult-year agenda and wants to make the government shut down, we will work with those Republicans who are interested in funding the government, as we did in April. We have so many things to do. We have to fund the government. We have DACA.…”