Political Quotes

“I do not want to do is to create a poisoned environment which will make it difficult, if not impossible, to do what I think seniors want, which is to arrive at a reasonable compromise that will provide them with a prescription drug benefit. They have heard us too many times, as candidates, place in their living rooms on their television screens ads that pronounce our commitment to a prescription drug benefit for senior Americans. Now is the time to deliver. I recognize that in a democracy that means we have to have at least a majority, and probably under the rules of the Senate not just a majority but three out of every five Senators be prepared to vote for a single piece of legislation. Therefore, I reach my hand out across the aisle to two of my favorite colleagues, the Senator from Utah, who is now being joined by the Senator from Iowa, with whom I worked on many issues in the past, to say we look forward to engaging in that compromise.”