Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, people at home think they are watching C- SPAN, but this is more like ``Masterpiece Theatre.'' I mean, this is actually like a documentary where we record what happened in history, but here we see that we are going to change and revise history. We are going to remind everybody who is watching and everybody in this House that, under this minority leader, who was the majority leader at the time, we passed a bill in this House to keep the government open. We didn't want to shut down the government. We wanted to keep the government open and fund border security. We passed it in this House. Mr. Speaker, I know everybody is smiling over there because you voted against it, but we passed it in this House, and we sent it to the Senate. It was the Senate Democrats who said, ``Oh, no. Oh, no, we are not going to do any of that border security stuff. We want you to go ahead and have the shutdown, and then we will blame it all on you.'' Mr. Speaker, we are not here to revise history. We would like to get to the task at hand, which is solving this issue of border security. We ask the other side, instead of engaging in this blame game, of which they are wholly part of, obviously--they didn't want to keep the government open. The Senate Democrats didn't want to do anything to keep the government open. Forget this charade, this theater, and let's get to negotiating on border security and making sure that the American people are safe.”