Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come down to the floor and I hear the Senator from Louisiana saying he has been in the Senate for years and he cannot believe we cannot debate these things. I have watched over the last 13 months since President Obama took the oath of office-- 13 months and less than a week--and I am incredulous the Senator from Louisiana would say what he says; that we, in fact, do not allow debate in this institution, when more than 100 times, just in the last 13 months--I think maybe 110 times; I cannot keep count because we add a few every day or every week--more than 100 times the other party, the Republicans, have obstructed, have delayed, have stopped us from moving forward. We have had plenty of time to debate. We will stay here weekends. We will stay here evenings. But when it is not debate they want, it is to block things--maybe talking things to death is the way they block things; maybe they just object to things--but time and time again we have had the ``slow walk'' on health care, so we have not been able to put a bill on the President's desk. That is not because people do not have ideas. It is not because people want to shut down debate. It is because they have tried to stop these bills on issue after issue after issue. I remember something so simple as the children's health insurance bill, which President Bush vetoed but many people in both parties supported. They tried to slow that down.…”