Political Quotes

“I want to thank again, as I said at the outset, the cosponsors of this legislation. Particularly it has been a pleasure working with the gentleman from Delaware [Mr. Castle] and his staff in trying to put together a truly bipartisan approach to what is an American crisis and will require an American solution. The American solution to me means a bipartisan solution, one that both sides maybe cannot embrace in total but can accept. That is really what we have tried to do, because we are honestly, sincerely, and for no other purpose, interested in changing and reforming a broken system. Everyone has spoken to that today, and that is the sole purpose for the countless hours that we have worked on this and brought it to this point. We have tried to sail a partisan ship through this place twice this year, and it has not worked. What happens when we do that? We all fail; the White House fails, the Congress fails. It does not matter whether one is Democrat or Republican. We fail to deliver welfare reform to the American people when we insist on sailing this partisan ship through the Halls of this Congress.”