Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it is December, so America's attention turns once again to the great debate of our times: What is the best Christmas movie? Is it ``White Christmas,'' maybe ``Elf,'' ``A Christmas Story,'' ``Home Alone,'' or ``Die Hard''? That is a good one. A lot of people are partial to ``It's a Wonderful Life'' or ``Braveheart.'' Now, ``Braveheart,'' of course, has nothing to do with Christmas, but it is about freedom. Nothing says freedom quite like Christmas. We have to debate, you see, the best Christmas movie out there for the simple reason that we also have to watch every year the worst Christmas movie. The worst Christmas movie is the one that runs every single year from this Chamber right here in this city on C-SPAN just a week before our Lord's birthday. It is called omnibus. Critics and fans have loved to hate it for years. As is always the case in these money- grabbing sequels, the actors and the writers and the directors are just mailing it in. They know they can do this every year, and it works for them, so they mail it in. The only plot twist this time is that instead of a continuing resolution or a single omnibus, leaders and appropriators have cleverly put the negotiated spending agreement into two bills so that we can all pretend it is better than just one.…”