Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I became a practicing physician over 30 years ago. I delivered well in excess of 4,000 babies. And right now in my Senate career and where the Senate is, I feel as if I am the father in the waiting room. I keep wondering when we are going to make any progress, when we are actually going to have the delivery of something positive for the country. What we are seeing this week is really disappointing to me because if you read just the headlines in the last 4 days, here are the headlines about Congress. Here is today's Politico: ``The Lamest Lame Duck Looms Over Congress.'' ``Lame Ducks Will Roost in a Do-Nothing December.'' ``December will be the lamest lame-duck session in a long time.'' The Economist: ``Congress is useless.'' America's legislature has become something of a joke in recent years, a place where good policy ideas go to die and where decent policy ideas go to be twisted into something incomprehensible. It is enough to make one lose faith in representative democracy, I tell you. CNN: Congress has taken off the whole year. But here's the current math: What is less than nothing? And if you do less than nothing, at what point does it become completely counterproductive and silly? That is our debate. The sum total of our big ideas right now is not wanting to start any fights within our own party and unity above all else as we head into the midterm election. What is the political solution?…”