Political Quotes

“My office is working with Kelly now to see if we can't be helpful. But the point is she should never have had to go through that anxiety and worry, and risk not being able to move into that house that she had a chance to move into. That is what real life is. Real life is trying to complete a mortgage application and moving along to go from an apartment to a home with your four children and being stopped because of a shutdown here. And in the case of the earlier letter I referred to, it is a daughter talking about her parents and the worry they have, and the literally sleepless nights and pain and anxiety because of what is happening or not happening here in Washington. We hope and pray on days such as this that the actions taken will lift some of that anxiety and provide a measure--and maybe it will only be a very small measure--of comfort and what we hope will be some degree of stability. I think once we get past this period, we can get back to the work the American people expect us to focus on, which is--if I could put this in a sound bite, what I hear from people in Pennsylvania saying they hope I will do as one of their representatives--that we will work together to create jobs or work together to help the middle class, work together to move the economy forward, or some variation of that, and that is what we hope to get to.…”