Jake Siewert Quotes (15 Quotes)

Doesn't sound like a veto-proof majority to me.

Mr. Cheney was part of the 'Whip Inflation Now' team and he was part of a Bush administration that had a pretty anemic growth record, but that doesn't mean he's qualified to talk about the state of the economy today.

We will do what we can to be helpful. We will be talking to all the various campaigns. The president wants to play a role in the final two weeks of the election -- helping Democratic candidates around the country, from the vice president to the first lady to various congressional members.

The president made the decision on the merits.

We'll have to examine the details. But it is not clear that the provisions will actually help American farmers and others who want to sell food to Cuba.

We will not determine the timing of the vote.

We put out a budget in February that lays out where we stand. It's hard to blame us for the fact that they are well behind on their work.

They're the worst wildfires in 50 years and the president very much wanted to go out there and see the people working on them.

Unfortunately, it looks like Congress is going to squander another day without getting any substantial work done.

We'll wait and see how it comes out in the Senate.

We don't want to pre-judge how the next administration will proceed. We've been consulting with them all along.

The president has stated that he'd like to stay and get the work done. But we'll take a look at whatever emerges from Congress at the end of the day.

Certainly he's an experienced debater, and she said she's never done this before. I'm sure he's offered some advice.

California might be the exception to every rule. The president will spend time in California. He will be in California because it's a state where he has a lot of friends and a lot of people he'd like to help. . . . There are a lot of close races and the president will be there between now and election day.

The timing of it absolutely reeks, but given the past conduct and record of that office is not surprising.