Political Quotes

“On your time I will yield for the full 30 minutes but on my time I want to talk about the way you are flouting the law, flouting the Congressional Budget Act. If you think that act is inappropriate, then change the law, but it is on the books. Tonight we find that only half of the appropriations bills have been passed, and we further find that our Republican colleagues, including those who have asked me to yield, have boasted of the fact that they do not plan to complete their work, never planned to complete it, because, purely for political advantage, they have decided to wait until September, not until July as the law requires but to wait until September to even bring up the last reconciliation act, so they plan to provide us the same old kind of brinksmanship that led to the Government shutdown, that led to the crybaby incident, that produced the failure of the last Congress. I think America does not want a repeat of that kind of failure. It cost us too much before, and it resulted in a great deal of pain and anguish for millions of American citizens. I know it takes you time to get this job done, especially when you want to cut Medicare and you want to cut education and you want to put all these restrictions on enforcing our environmental laws. It takes a lot of time to figure out how to do it. But it is wrong and you ought to stay here and get your job done.”