Political Quotes

“Madam President, before she leaves the floor, let me say to the Senator from Maine that I very much appreciate her thoughtful views. She continually talks about the desire to get folks to come together. I think there are a variety of ways to do it. That is essentially what I was going to outline this afternoon. I just want to assure my good friend from Maine that I am very much looking forward to working with her on this issue and thank her again for her kind remarks. Madam President and colleagues, I think we have a choice. We can continue to have this debate at the margins about how to extend a thoroughly discredited, insanely complicated, job-killing system that we have today or we can find a way, as Democrats and President Reagan did back in the 1980s, to come together and put in place a reform system that will create, in my view, millions of good- paying, new jobs, the way Democrats and Republicans in the 1980s came together and created more than 16 million new jobs. To pick up on this discussion, I think there is a message for Democrats and Republicans together on this issue. This question of extending the 2001 and 2003 tax legislation has almost become a tax version of ``The Emperor Has No Clothes.'' We all know this story and have read it to our kids. It's about two swindlers spinning a tall tail about magical, invisible cloth.…”