Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to speak for 60 more seconds and then stop. I thank the Senator from Montana and the Senator from Florida for allowing me to do this. I want to be clear and say we have had a great partnership, numbers of us have. Some of the claims in this bill about preserving too big to fail are legitimate because of some changes that occurred about 10 days before the bill came to committee, maybe a week. But the fact is, they can be very easily fixed, and I think we all know how to fix them, and they can be fixed very quickly. The prefunding issue is an issue that, to me, is a legitimate debate. If it needs to go to zero, the framework, as Senator Warner just talked about, is still intact. It still works exactly the same way. It is a debate as to whether you want to absolutely make sure taxpayers are protected. But if people think this prefund is something that looks like a bailout, let's drop it, let's get rid of it, let's end it. Let's let borrowing capacity at the FDIC be the only avenue. But my point is, these are all--in the scope of things, they are being made into really big things, when, in essence, a couple of semithoughtful people could solve these things in just a few minutes and we could move on to other aspects of the bill that do need to be corrected.…”