Political Quotes

“Mr. President, yesterday I spent a few minutes talking about the accomplishments of the 114th Congress, and what I have discovered is that if we don't talk about them, nobody else does. People have become so cynical about Washington and very distressed in so many ways--and I can certainly understand why--that it is important for us to point out a few of the simple facts. It is not that we have completely turned this battleship around, but we have made this incremental progress under the leadership the American people put in charge last November--the Republican leadership in the House and in the Senate, obviously, with a President of the opposite party. Under the Constitution, the President still has a vote, he has a veto pen, and he is not irrelevant. But notwithstanding the fact that we have some well-publicized differences with the President, and even among Republicans and Democrats, I think in fairness we have to acknowledge that we have had a pretty good run in the last 11 months or so. I don't want to make this a partisan issue because frankly you can't get anything done in the U.S. Senate or in the U.S. Congress or in the U.S. Government without bipartisan cooperation. So on the bill we are working on today, the fix for No Child Left Behind, there is the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Senator Murray, who has worked hand-in- glove with the chairman, Senator Alexander.…”