Political Quotes

Yes, I am. I am just an optimist, I guess. I think that cooler heads will prevail in the final analysis. If we have a shutdown. I don't think we will recover from it anytime soon.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, earlier this evening, we gathered on this floor to observe a moment of silence. We have been doing that quite a bit over the last several years, but it seems to me that it is…

I think Joe Biden does well, as you know, there is about a dozen African- American women under serious consideration -- it got down to three. And my thought, was one of the other two.

This is about whether or not people are being held against their will, irrespective of what their duties and responsibilities are to that system that they have brought into and did not ask to come into.