Political Quotes

“Mr. President, if the Chair will please let me know when there is a minute left, I would appreciate it. I rise to speak about the current issue. I am always glad to speak after my friend from Virginia, whom I have enjoyed working with on so many issues. I appreciate the work he is doing now to try to deal with the bigger issue we have to deal with. I will not waste a lot of emotion or say things that might--look, we are involved in a powder puff right now. We are dealing with a small amount of dollars. We add $4.1 billion a day to the deficit--$4.1 billion a day. So probably, with the negotiations we are involved in today, maybe we are separated by 1 day of deficit spending. I know there has been a lot of talk about what might happen with the government shutdown. I don't believe that is going to happen. I believe that when we come in on Monday morning, an agreement will have been reached. I am not going to waste time on the Senate floor talking about all the bad that might happen in this country because I cannot believe that, over the small ball we are dealing with right now, we are going to have a government shutdown. I think we will resolve this over the next few hours or maybe sometime over the weekend possibly. Maybe there will be a minor disruption this weekend. I have faith that this will be worked out. What I want to spend time talking about is the fact that we do have a crisis that is looming.…”