Political Quotes

“I would like to pick up on Senator Blunt's point about just how unserious this week has been. Just in comparison to business, about 5 years ago I bought a business out of bankruptcy. I watched those business owners over the course of 2 or 3 years struggle to make a go of that business. You would not believe the number of hours those people, those hard-working Americans put in to save that business. It didn't work. They went into reorganization under the bankruptcy laws. I bought that business out of bankruptcy. I saw how incredibly hard my team worked to make that business survive, and it did survive. These are individuals putting in 16, 17, 18, 20 hours a day to make a product, to build a good life for themselves and their families, to provide employment, jobs. This is the American spirit. That is the entrepreneurial spirit. That is what Americans do day in and day out, whether they own a business or whether they contribute their effort: their labor to make their business successful, the one they work for successful. That is what Americans do. What has this President done? What has this Congress done? What has this Senate done? In the last 6 months since I have been here, we passed six laws, six bills that have become law. Three of those had to do with the continuing resolutions of last year's business: funding the government for this year. Those were laws that should have been passed 1 year ago, but it was left over for us to do that.…”