Political Quotes

“I thank my friend for yielding. You know, the one thing that I hear more than anything else when I travel back home to Pennsylvania is the frustration with Washington and the massive divide that they see that prevents us from solving real problems, from solving American problems. And as I've heard from my colleagues here tonight, that feeling is not limited to my communities of Bucks County and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It doesn't take much to see that our Nation is facing some pretty serious problems. It's long been clear to me that we need lawmakers to come together and put aside politics and do what we were elected to do, which is to solve problems. When I served as a local official back home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on a bipartisan board, it didn't take long to figure out that there was no Republican way or Democratic way to fix a bridge or to care for an abused or abandoned or neglected child. It was just the right way to do it. So now, as a member of the No Labels Problem Solvers, I'm proud to be part of the solution and to enthusiastically subscribe to our motto, which is ``Stop Fighting and Start Fixing.'' Once we cross the so- called ``political divide'' and talk to each other, we readily find common ground, balance, and ultimately solutions. I was proud to be an early proponent of the No Labels initiative No Budget No Pay, which passed the House recently and yielded real results--the first budget resolution from the Senate in 4 years.…”