Political Quotes

“I thought last night's meeting was a healthy meeting. I am glad we did what we did. I appreciate the two leaders sponsoring that meeting, and I appreciate the time in which everyone spoke. I think with a lot of phone calls having been made this morning we can and will move past the cloture vote for Mr. Cordray. I have had several conversations with him and others, this morning, but I do want to say this is a gesture of good faith. We will see what happens in a moment when the vote takes place and, obviously, in this body, nothing happens until it happens. I hope Members on the other side will note this good-faith effort that is taking place in a few moments. I hope it is going to happen. I think it may. I hope that over the course of the next 24 to 48 hours we can work in a little more comprehensive manner. I think this would be something to get behind us during this next year and a half so we can move on to solving our Nation's problems. I don't think it is healthy for this body to constantly have potential rules changes hanging over the issues of our Nation, and we do have big issues. We have an opportunity, potentially, to get the immigration issue behind us. I know there are other pieces of legislation we could well deal with.…”