Political Quotes

“One interesting point. You have these groups that went down to the White House in May and June--and I'm not going to criticize them for going down and advocating on behalf of their industries, on behalf of their groups. But what is so onerous about this is the President has proclaimed this Sunshine Week. Transparency is going to be the watchword of his administration. Remember? We heard it over and over again. Everything will be up on C-SPAN, everybody will be able to see it--except for these deals that were struck down in the White House in May and June. And now they come back and say, Well, there really wasn't anything written down. Two trillion dollars in savings and you didn't write a word of it down? Now, in Texas, as the gentleman knows, we trust each other. A handshake is as good as a signature a lot of times. But when it's $2 trillion, you're probably going to need a little more than a handshake even in Texas, because are people going to perform as they said they were going to perform? When Senator McCain wanted to push an amendment that dealt with reimportation in the markup of the Senate bill, in the debate of the Senate bill at Christmastime--I don't agree with reimportation. I think it's unsafe. I think it's unwise. But Senator McCain was prevented from offering that amendment because, to quote somebody at the time, That wasn't part of the deal that we had. Well, wait a minute. If there is a deal that someone knows about, is it written down somewhere?…”