Political Quotes

“I will be very brief. Our agenda has been very clear. It has been clearly articulated and, as people look back, as they look forward, they will see how all the pieces come together because each time we take a bill to the floor there is a complaint. On child custody, there is obstruction; we are going to stop it. But it is clear to the American people. When we go back to our States and talk to the people, they get it. The Democratic leader is right in many ways. He says Iraq and dead Americans--the words he used--$3 billion, all of which I look at as securing America's homeland and those enduring values of freedom and liberty that we know are so important to our generation and that next generation. That is what this war on terror is about. It is the No. 1 issue, securing America's homeland. I will come back to that in a second. I hope we can address supporting our troops overseas in the Department of Defense appropriations bill, this week. We need to do that this week as well. We could go to that tonight. I will talk to Chairman Stevens as soon as I finish here to see if we can take that to the floor tonight and address it over the next couple of days. Securing America's homeland, we addressed in part through our border security bill, and addressing immigration, we did spend several weeks on the floor of the Senate. The second thematic is securing America's prosperity.…”