Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator, the former Governor for those comments. I do believe it is difficult for Congress to ask the American people to make sacrifices if the President does not acknowledge clearly and articulately the deep crisis we are in and why those sacrifices have to be made. It is not that we want to; it is because we do not have the money and we have to make some changes in what we do. That is why a number of us called on Majority Leader Reid to not recess next week. Let's stay and do something about the debt. I understand we may now be staying next week, but I am not at all sure that the plan is to deal with anything involving the greatest threat to our Nation, which is our debt. Apparently, they want to talk about other issues. That was not what drove the concern. It was not about a patent bill--much as I would like to see it passed. That was not what we were concerned about when we said we need to be in next week. It is because, by the end of this month, maybe the first of August, we will see a monumental bill of some kind produced by the Democratic majority in the Senate, brought out here, and we are going to be asked to vote for it in a matter of hours, being told every minute that the country is about to sink into oblivion if we don't sign it and vote for it, not knowing fully what is in it, not fully having studied it, the American people not knowing what is in it. That is wrong policy. We object to that.…”