Political Quotes

“I am here today to talk about the ongoing government shutdown and the need to provide more security on our southern border and to try to put a little perspective around it. The President just issued his own proposal. It is a reasonable proposal, I think, and a constructive proposal to try to end this shutdown and reopen the government and strengthen the southern border. I am told we are going to vote on that plan tomorrow here in the Senate. It includes a lot of the ideas that I have been discussing with colleagues on both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans, over the past few weeks. Some of these ideas are ones that Democrats support more, and some the Republicans support more. It is the basis for a compromise. I am going to vote for the President's plan, and I am going to explain here in a minute why I would hope that colleagues on both sides of the aisle would support that plan tomorrow as a way to take a step forward and to take a step back from the partisanship and the division that is keeping our government shutdown. My hope is that even if the proposal cannot pass with a 60-vote majority, which, unfortunately, seems likely right now, it will spark good-faith negotiations to enable us to quickly end the government shutdown and move forward. Unfortunately, some of the partisanship and division I talked about has made that harder.…”