Political Quotes

“I rise today, once again, to talk about a threatened veto by the President of the United States. We spent many weeks debating the Children's Health Insurance Program, months, really, when you consider all the time. People worked very hard on both sides of the aisle on children's health insurance. Yet despite all that work, despite all that bipartisanship, despite all of the hours and the energy that went into getting a bipartisan bill on children's health insurance, we have the President of the United States vetoing that legislation and threatening to veto it yet again. Unfortunately, I stand today to talk about another threatened veto. President Bush is threatening to veto the farm bill, which makes no sense at all not only because of the work that went into this bill by Republicans and Democrats in the Senate, that is reason enough for him not to veto important legislation such as this, but I think it is even graver than that. It is an even graver threat than talking about vetoing legislation because when the President of the United States, if he were to carry through on his threat to veto the farm bill, he is vetoing a lot of provisions that he should not be coming out against and fighting against.”