Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I would just add, that was not what Senator Daines or anybody else on the Republican side said at the time. I was here at the time, and what was said at the time, particularly by Senator Daines is ``I don't think it's right to bring a nominee forward in an election year''--not when the party's control is split in one way or another. ``I don't think it's right to bring a nominee forward in an election year'' because the American people should have their voice ``reflected.'' That has not changed. This new emphasis on the party difference is fundamentally the rule of ``because we can.'' If that is going to be the rule, if that is the rule that Republicans are prepared to adopt here--that what matters around here isn't precedent, isn't principle, isn't what is right, but is just because we can--then please don't feign surprise in the months and years ahead if we on the Democratic side follow that same rule that you are saying is the way to proceed today. In the same way that it is at least ironic for Republicans to stand here complaining about dark money when it was the Republican Party that protected dark money here on the Senate floor, it will be equally ironic if the party should turn around later on and Democrats seek to use the measure of ``because we can,'' and you raise objections. You are basically here on the Senate floor forfeiting your right to make those objections in the way you are behaving on this nomination.…”