Political Quotes

“this is the last day of a long legislative season. We are about to take the month of August to go back to our home States, be with our constituents, and maybe have a little opportunity to get some personal relaxation and rejuvenation, and come back after Labor Day and complete this 107th session of Congress. It is exactly this time in the legislative calendar where maybe tempers and tolerance are beginning to wear thin and short. I share with my friend from Oklahoma high feelings for the persons who debated vigorously over the last 2 weeks on an issue whose importance we all understand and feel deeply about, which is the issue of providing a health care program to 40 million senior Americans by adding to that 37-year-old program, at long last, a prescription drug benefit. I think the goal is one we all share. We have somewhat different ideas as to how to get to that goal. The reason I came to the floor earlier today was out of, yes, a sense of personal attack but also a sense of the need to set a very obvious erroneous record somewhat straighter.”