Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are faced with a difficult challenge, and we know the American people watching us over so many days now understand the basic challenge we face. It is a challenge of reducing deficit and debt and cutting spending but also making sure we have a bipartisan agreement to pay our bills and to meet our obligations. I think if I had to boil it down to four words, it is these, in terms of what people in Pennsylvania have told me we must do. It is very simple, but I think it encapsulates everything we have to do in the next couple hours--the next couple days--and that is compromise for our country. That is what people are looking for, people all across the country. I hear from families in Pennsylvania all the time. These are families who have led lives of struggle and sacrifice, families who have lived through so much already. Many remember and have lived through the Great Depression and World War II and wars after that, economic downturns, personal tragedies, job loss--all kinds of misery and all kinds of difficulty. But throughout our State, and I think throughout the country, people have figured out a way to work together, to compromise in their own lives, even when they don't want to make a compromise, and they have figured out a way to work together, whether it is at a work site or at home. I hear these same messages from people all the time. Let me give a sample of some of the feedback I have gotten from Pennsylvanians just in the last couple days.…”