Political Quotes

“I share one thing in common with my friend from Virginia. This is a very sad day and certainly a day I never expected to have to live through. I think, broadly speaking, as I look across this floor, you can divide Members into three groups. I am very happy to be in the first group, the overwhelming majority of my party who supports the Speaker that we elected. We are proud of the leadership he has shown. We are proud of the manner in which he has been willing to work with everybody in our Conference, and I believe in this Chamber. There is a second group, a small group. Honestly, they are willing to plunge this body into chaos and this country into uncertainty for reasons that only they really understand. I certainly don't. Then there are friends on the other side--I mean friends, honestly, with great sincerity--I have a lot of friends over there, and I recognize that my friends on the other side have a very complex set of partisan, personal, and political calculations to make. I certainly wouldn't presume to give them any advice about that, but I would say think long and hard before you plunge us into chaos because that is where we are headed if we vacate the speakership. I personally think there are really three reasons why we have come to this point, and that is because at each three of these critical minutes, the Speaker did the right thing. First, there was a Speaker vote.…”