Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. My colleagues here, these are good Members of Congress. My point is, we need to raise the bar and start doing some serious work around here. I would agree, this is a historic Congress, because we are doing nothing right now. We are doing nothing. I would agree with you, I will stand here, and I will have the political guts to vote against the resolution for the South Carolina recognition of the men's--I think it's the Men's College World Series. It's ridiculous that we bring it up. I don't care if it's a Democrat, I don't care if it's a Republican. If it's in the world of sport, they get enough recognition. And to cite this as, oh, it's important because Sports Illustrated recognized it, well, they have a swimsuit edition. I haven't seen a resolution on that yet, and I hope we never do. The people of the United States deserve better than to debate whether or not to recognize a racetrack on its 142nd anniversary. We have got important business. We have troops that are in harm's way. We have yet to bring up a supplemental that the President is asking for. We have not, since, I think it was 1974 when they changed the budget rules, we have not brought before this body--for the very first time since then--we have not brought up a budget resolution to discuss the outrageous deficit that we are suffering through. This body has not brought up appropriations bills. These are the important things that we should be doing here.…”