Political Quotes

“I would just add to what Senator Reid, Senator Durbin, and Senator Levin have said: that a 60-vote requirement is a filibuster. It is to block this. Now, speaking of how long people have been here, I came here when President Ford was President. I have served under President Ford, President Carter, President Reagan, President George H.W. Bush, President William Jefferson Clinton, President George W. Bush, and now President Obama. I cannot remember, with any of those Presidents prior to President Obama, of this insistence for a 60-Member vote to raise the debt limit ceiling. Certainly, with the number of times we raised the debt limit under President Ronald Reagan, I do not remember one single Republican suggesting that we needed 60 votes. The same was true I believe under President George H.W. Bush, and under President George W. Bush. The numerous times the debt ceiling was raised, not a single Republican said it is so important we must have a 60-vote margin. Yet all of a sudden, with President Obama, the whole criteria changes. Suddenly the rules that were good enough for Republicans with a Republican President are something to be changed with this President. The American public, Republican or Democratic, can see through that. This is a different standard. We are saying this President must follow different rules from every President before him--Republican or Democrat.…”