Political Quotes

“we certainly do need a balanced, enlightened trade policy. But this debate is not about trade, it is about the guiding principle of the Bush Administration--arrogance-- arrogance that has served our country so poorly. This President, personally proclaiming himself to be a ``uniter, not a divider'' at the beginning, quickly transformed himself into the ``decider.'' And that lone decider has unleashed one divisive, disastrous decision after another on our land. Mr. Cheney's current chief of staff, he summed up this attitude very directly: ``We're going to push and push and push until some larger force is going to make us stop.'' Well today, our Speaker, backed up by this House, says ``Stop.'' The go-it-alone, disdain for allies, dismissal of anyone who has a different point of view, has left this White House isolated. It has left us with a disastrous war, and now Mr. Bush's recession. We'll secure a more responsible, enlightened trade policy, but we won't secure it until we trade it for a new President.”