Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess this probably symbolizes as much as anything what's wrong with Congress. Here are people who get up and say this is a good bill that's good for job creation in this country, it had been bipartisan for 30 years, and because we made a mistake in the Republican Conference with respect to lumping it in as some sort of earmark, we have to oppose it, even though it's good for job creation in this country and good for our Nation. This is almost Alice in Wonderland where up is down and down is up. I have to vote against a bill I know will help create jobs because they did it when they wrote the rules. And we misinterpreted the rules, so now we're going to have two wrongs make a right. If job creation is important, and everyone knows that this bill will help create jobs in the United States of America, it seems to me that to vote against it for the reasons--and by the way, part of the time delay was because of a Senator in the other body who is in the Republican Party. But all that aside, if we cannot rise above some inane technicality that is in the rules that we just don't like or we can't interpret correctly, or whatever, and we're going to vote against American workers and the industrial base of this country because of that, then I suggest we give our voting cards to whoever the leadership of the Republican Conference is and go home. What do we have brains for?”