Political Quotes

“Since he was talking about the EPA, the overregulations there, I happen to have been privileged when we were in the majority to be the chairman of the committee called the Environment and Public Works Committee. It does a lot of very important things in terms of highways and roads and infrastructure. What the Senator from Kentucky was talking about is all the overregulations that come from that. I am very sensitive to that. That is not why I am here tonight. In fact, I wish to talk a little bit about the nuclear option, about how this has changed things around here, and it is somewhat of a crisis level we have arrived at. Before I do, I wish to share something on ObamaCare. A lot of things have been said on this floor about the problems with ObamaCare. I wish to elaborate a little bit about that in a minute but not right now. I only wish to say that 2 months ago, when my good friend from Texas, Senator Cruz, and 11 of us were concerned about trying to do something to stop ObamaCare and we took some pretty drastic steps--he actually stayed up and spoke all night--I did not, but I spoke during the evening and again in the morning. But I told a story at that time. It puts it into a context that people don't understand. The story was this: Keep in mind this was 2 months ago.…”