Political Quotes

“About 5 hours ago, I had what I consider to be one of the greatest moments of my 11-year congressional career as I got to watch the President of the United States sign into law a Medicare reform bill that will finally provide a prescription drug benefit to our seniors and our disabled. For 38 years, every Congress, Republican, Democrat, every administration, Republican, Democrat, had failed to accomplish this. It was not because most Members of Congress did not want to do it. I dare say every single Democrat sitting in this House and serving in this House wanted to make sure that we got a prescription drug benefit delivered to our elderly and our disabled, and most Republicans wanted to do it for many years. And why did Congress fail year after year? Not because of lack of desire to get the job done, but because the job is extraordinarily difficult. It is extraordinarily difficult to craft a bill that is conservative enough to get most Republicans and liberal enough to attract some Democrats.”