Political Quotes

“I am stunned genuinely to hear the last speaker refer to whining, to refer to crying. I find even more stunning the comments of the distinguished chair of the Rules Committee referring to crybabies. I had thought that would be an incident that our Republican colleagues would just as soon forget, because all America knows there was only one crybaby involved in all this and that is what finally led to the Government shutdown last November. Mr. Speaker, I think that America can look at what is happening here tonight and can say in short, ``Been there, done that.'' We had your hurry-up-and-stop approach to government all of the last year. Where did it lead America? It led us down the road to two very costly Government shutdowns, and when all was said and done and we followed your path, the American taxpayer got a bill for $1.5 billion of wasted taxpayer money because you did not do your job and then a crybaby came along and pouted and we ended up with a Government shutdown and no budget. The law on this is very clear. You are such revolutionaries apparently you would believe in flouting the law instead of following the law. The law does not say anything to prevent Mr. Solomon from going to upstate New York and talking to all the other revolutionaries that he might want to talk to. It says you can take 3 days and have your watermelon and your apple pie and make your Fourth of July speech but if you do not have your work done, come back to Washington and get it done.”