Political Quotes

“I congratulate him on the speech in terms of content of the message and the way it was delivered. Obviously, the President is very good at that and I am sure he knows it. And I am sure the American people appreciated the speech in terms of raising their spirits. I choose today just to take a few minutes to talk about one aspect of the President's speech that I agree with. That has to do with violent crime by our teenagers and young people. First of all, I am convinced that we have an opportunity, because of this President, to adopt some very, very tough but, as he said, smart new laws with reference to crime; crime prevention in particular with reference to violent crime. But I am concerned, while the President is for 'three times and you are out'--meaning with a third felony of a violent nature you get life imprisonment and you do not get out--I am concerned that there are other provisions of the crime bill that the Senate passed that are very good and at least implicitly the President supports, but I am not at all sure that the Democratic majority in the House is not going to do what they have done on several other occasions when a crime bill is sent to them.”