Political Quotes

“If I can for just a few moments speak with some experience, both having served on the House Ethics Committee and now as a Member of the Senate Ethics Committee. While I applaud the environment of reform and the intent to reform the gift laws as they have been spelled out in the past and as they are being spelled out by the Senator from Michigan or the Senator from Minnesota or the Senator from Kentucky, Mr. President, my experience tells me that there is something here that is very important that we must adhere to, and that is that in the reform effort that we are about, for the sake of this Senate and for the sake of the American public, we must, first of all, be clear in what we do, it must, above all else, be understandable, and it must be enforceable. And if those three principles are not adhered to, problems will be afoot.”