Political Quotes

“I very much appreciate what you and Senator Durbin are seeking to do because not only have you tried to generate bipartisan support for it--I was there at the White House when you handed it to the President. That was what the moderate Democrats tried to do again a couple of days ago, to say: Look, we want to show enormous good faith behind the cause of bipartisanship. I sure wish the Republican leader, Senator Cornyn, had stayed on the floor because he was attacking Democrats for obstructing the cause of bipartisan tax reform. He knows full well that I have written two bills. By the way, Republicans said, as part of that bill--unlike this one-- that they want everybody in America to get ahead, not just the folks at the top. The senior Republican, Senator Gregg from New Hampshire, Republican chairman of the Budget Committee, made the agreement with me to make it attractive to create red, white, and blue jobs, not to make it more attractive to ship jobs overseas. So I want to give my colleague the last word with respect to the importance of this, but people ought to understand, A, Democrats have been showing for months--for months--how strongly we feel about doing this in a bipartisan way; B, my colleague on this particular issue, patriot corporations, handed this proposal to the President asking for bipartisanship, and we have had a bipartisan proposal for years. Senator Cornyn has never had a bipartisan tax reform proposal. I would like to let my colleague finish up.”