Political Quotes

“I mentioned a few minutes ago, when I was here last night something was said, and I went back and I got some phone calls because people did not believe it. I say to my good friend Senator Cruz, I think sometimes people like you who are living this issue 24 hours a day--literally 24 hours on this day--may assume people understand the significance of some things that they do not. Because I got these phone calls last night when I was talking about--and I quoted our leader here in the Senate, Senator Harry Reid. A couple days ago on the PBS program ``Nevada Week in Review,'' Senate majority leader Harry Reid was asked whether his goal was to move ObamaCare to a single-payer system, and his answer was: ``Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.'' I know I said this last night. But a lot of people did not realize that because there is--and if the Senator does not mind, I am going to take a few minutes here to kind of set the question up because I think it is important. As the Acting President pro tempore will remember, since he was in the other body when I was elected many years ago to the House of Representatives--I recall at that time nobody thought the Republicans would ever be a majority of anything, the House or the Senate. I know that would have pleased the Acting President pro tempore. It is kind of interesting because we became very good friends, and yet we are philosophically apart from each other.…”