Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today we have a series of votes that I know may be difficult for the American people, who may be looking on, to understand. In the Senate we have a procedure called cloture, which signifies whether Members are ready to end debate and move on to the vote on the substance of the bill we are now discussing. We have been on this now for 2 weeks. We have had 12 hearings in the Foreign Relations Committee, with my distinguished friend Senator Cardin as the ranking member, and we have had all kinds of debate on the floor. Almost every Senator in the Senate has spoken. Yet we find ourselves in this place where a bipartisan majority of Senators wish to send a vote of disapproval to the President and 42 Senators are keeping us from doing so. If I could just walk through this, first of all, in a strong bipartisan, almost overwhelming manner--almost four times since 2010-- this body has put sanctions in place against Iran to bring them to the negotiating table. I want to commend people on both sides of the aisle for making that happen. My friend, Bob Menendez, and Mark Kirk on our side, together with all the rest of us helped to make those things happen. When this body saw that the President, after we helped to bring Iran to the table, was going to negotiate a deal that cut us out--that, in essence, caused him to be able to go straight to the U.N.…”