Political Quotes

“we just passed the combating autism bill that we have been working on for 16 months. I thank Senator Dodd for his tremendous work on that. I thank all of the autism groups. I thank Jennifer Vesey for the tremendous work she did and the hours and hours and patience it takes to put together complex and important pieces of legislation. Later today, or tomorrow, we are going to pass the abandoned mine lands bill. I would love to say that was Rick Santorum, but it was Ashley Horning; it wasn't Rick Santorum. She did all the work. I pretty much knew what was in there, and I would negotiate the parts in disagreement. That is what we all do. But on 90 percent of the bills that most of us know about, we didn't hammer out the details; it was done by folks who have the commitment and vision and effort and work the long hours to make the legislation possible. It is important that in Pennsylvania now we will get a billion dollars to clean up abandoned mines--it is a tremendous contribution to the environment--or miners will have health care coverage paid because, in part, I had a terrific staff person. I can go down through issue after issue and look at these accomplishments that would be great to stand up and say that I did, but I had a tremendous amount of help. I had incredibly talented, gifted people who worked incredible hours. What most people across America don't realize is how hard our people around here work. They don't do it for the money.…”