Political Quotes

“other than the church and the family, I believe the United States Congress is the greatest institution in the world today and has been for a long time. The American people do not really know the details of what is going on up here over the last few days. They know the Congress is staying late to try to complete its work on reaching an agreement with the administration on the important budget for the next year and how we are going to spend their hard-earned tax dollars. But this afternoon on the way over here to vote, Mr. Speaker, I stopped on the lawn of the Capitol, took a deep breath of some really clean, crisp fall air on a beautiful sunny fall afternoon, looked at the glorious dome above this magnificent building and reflected a moment on what this really is all about in my heart. It is really about patriots wrestling with other patriots over their different approaches to the many challenges that we face as a people. Domestic challenges like education and drug abuse, challenges around the world militarily, economically. But it is really about good people trying to come to an agreement over issues that we share in common and challenges that we share in common. I was reminded of Winston Churchill. To paraphrase him he said, 'This is the worst form of government imaginable, except for every other.' What he meant is that sometimes it is difficult, sometimes it is painful, sometimes it is even messy. But it beats the heck out of everything else.”