Political Quotes

“again, I am trying to have discussions in good faith. If in the next hour or hour and a half it is clear to me that no progress is being made--because by the time we have the policy luncheons, that will be 2 o'clock, and by the time we get back out here, it will be 3 or 4, and in essence we have lost a day. I do not want to make any commitment. I understand. That is why day after day I have not gone public, and I appreciate the Democratic leadership doing the same. But now all our colleagues are recognizing that our responsibility is to the United States of America and to this body, and we simply cannot leave next week with these things pending. If I wait until tomorrow or the next day before we bring this to a head, it will be clear that we are going to be here every single day. Right now, I think we have a chance. If we can do the committee resolution today--this morning--I think we can very quickly go to the appropriations process, the committee will be organized, and we can consider that legislation. Because so much work has already been done, we could, in fact, complete this and be able to have the recess that we initially planned. But if it is not done this morning or early this afternoon, I don't see how we will be able to do it.”