Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Oklahoma. I actually learned a lot sitting here listening. I know energy production is very important to his State and, obviously, to our Nation. I know he has a wealth of knowledge regarding this issue. I candidly enjoyed hearing his remarks, and I look forward to hearing the balance of them at another time. I am going to be very brief. I came down here because I am distressed about where we find ourselves. I want to thank the ranking member and the chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee who is dealing with postal reform. I thank them for working through the committee process and actually bringing a bill to the floor in that manner, something we do not do enough of around here. I thank them for allowing us to have amendments, free-for-all, as it relates to matters pertinent to this bill. I thank them for their work. Personally, I would like to see a lot more reforms take place in the postal bill. There is no question we are kicking the can down the road, and we are going to revisit this in another couple of years. Because of the way the bill is designed, I don't think there is any question that is going to happen. But I want to speak to the fact that the world, our Nation, and all of our citizens watched us last August as this country almost came to a halt as we voted on a proposal to reduce the amount of deficit spending that is taking place in our Nation at a time when the debt ceiling was being increased.…”