Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I stand in a distressing place of speaking after Senator Brown, of Ohio, and before Senator Blumenthal, of Connecticut, but I am delighted to be here tonight because the issues are so important. We are in a place in the Senate that is, frankly, weird, and I don't know if people around here have gotten used to this being weird, but it is weird. It is not normal. In the Senate, we have essentially eliminated legislation. We don't do that any longer. The House sends over legislation, and it piles up in stacks on Mitch McConnell's desk. We legislate, maybe, four or five things in an entire session of Congress. That is weird. We are a legislative body. We are supposed to legislate. Why the elimination of legislation? We have smashed through and destroyed norm after norm, tradition after tradition, rule after rule. Why is that? Do people get some perverse glee in smashing norms and traditions? Do people get some perverse glee in not passing legislation when they are sent here to legislate? It doesn't make any sense. Then you look at those on the other side and their 180 reversal. When they wanted to stop a Supreme Court Justice, we heard about how important it was that, before an election, the American people got to weigh in through their votes and that you shouldn't have a nominee appointed to the Court in the months before an election. Here we are, weeks before an election, and, suddenly--whoop--180. Why the hypocrisy?…”