Political Quotes

“if I violated the rule, it is because I am new to the game, and I don't know all the rules. But I want to thank them for their service in every way. Medal of Honor winners--it is just unfathomable to think that those folks can grab a live handgrenade and try to throw it away from their comrades, to absolutely charge into enemy fire like you can't imagine. And I think all the time, and I say to myself: You know, if I were in that situation, could I have that courage? Could I have that grit? Could I have that love for this unbelievable country and my comrades that are right with me? I don't know. It takes something that not many have, and we should honor them beyond belief. The reason I asked these gentlemen to stand was simply just this: Today--today--something happened to me that, to be perfectly honest, I may have thought was getting to be semi-impossible. And that was just this: People from both sides of the aisle actually talked to one another. I had an amazing conversation with Ranking Member Martin Heinrich. We sat, and we built some level of trust and communication. Now, we are always going to fight with one another; we know that. But at the end of the day, these four--and for all the other 3,500 almost-- today, we did something that, in all fairness, these four an hour and a half ago would have thought wasn't going to happen. So I am going to fast-forward and read something that we all thought was semi-impossible.…”