Political Quotes

“we have a unanimous consent request. Senator Grassley was going to be next, and I will go ahead and take his time. The unanimous consent request was that I be recognized as in morning business for such time as I shall consume. Let me share a couple of things. First of all, I am looking forward to serving with the Senator who was elected yesterday. I think he will find out something that I found out when I was first elected to the Senate after serving for several years in the House of Representatives: It is a more civil place. It is a place where we can have differences of opinion, where we disagree with each other, but we do so in a very friendly way. I am actually looking forward to that because there have been times when our discourse, our discussions with each other were not friendly, but I think it will turn out to be a total change. I wish to get on record to say that I am looking forward to serving with our newly elected Senator from Massachusetts. I look forward to being with him, although I think he has every reason and opportunity to change his mind on some of the positions he has taken in the past. Let me share something I didn't say when I had the floor yesterday and was talking a little bit about President Obama's talk. There were four things that I didn't hear, and I am going to repeat them. They are statements that were made by President Obama talking before an audience.…”