Political Quotes

“Before my friend from Missouri leaves, I again say how much I have enjoyed working with him on this legislation. I think it is fair to say that nothing important in the Senate gets done unless it is bipartisan. What the Senator from Missouri has done is lead the Senate in an area that I think is bold and innovative. In my view, it is an opportunity to provide a real turboboost to our economy. I represent a State that consistently is suffering high unemployment, loads of working-class families facing extraordinary economic hurt, and as we have talked about now for a good part of the day, there is no initiative before the Senate that will do more to create good-paying jobs than this particular legislation. I think it is important for the Senate to say on this bill, at this critical time, that we are not going to stand pat, that the status quo is not good enough. Let's not have a business-as-usual transportation bill. I like the idea of getting our citizens excited, for example, about buying a child or a grandchild a Build America bond, something where kids can save and families can engage in an effort to strengthen our country's infrastructure, rebuild our critically neglected transportation systems, as the Senator from Missouri has noted, and particularly get the American people involved in the exercise.”