Political Quotes

“What we went through was a bipartisan, commonsense exercise to ask the higher-education community what is it that makes your life more miserable that we can address. We went through a commonsense, bipartisan effort to put this bill together. The agreement early on was if we could not come to an agreement on the issue, it did not go into the bill. But there are 30 issues in this bill that have common agreement, that we all agreed that this would happen. Then all of a sudden along the way the track either got crooked or the train ran off the track and there are other issues that wanted a place in this bill, issues that unfortunately cost an awful lot of money. As the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) pointed out, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have supported everything in the bill. As I said before, let us not let the perfect become the enemy of the good.”