Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Texas and the Senator from Missouri for their courtesy, and I will endeavor to do it a little quicker than in 10 minutes. Changing Senate Rules Madam President, this weekend, Vanderbilt plays Tennessee in a football game in Knoxville. Let's say Vanderbilt gets on the 1-yard line of Tennessee and Tennessee then says: Well, we are the home team. Let's add 20 yards or whatever it takes to win the game. Or let's say in the World Series recently the Red Sox were behind St. Louis in the ninth inning and the Red Sox said: Well, we are the home team. Let's add a couple of innings or whatever it takes to win the game. Everyone, I think, would say that is cheating. Everyone would say: You are destroying the game of football or baseball. If a home team could change the rules at any time during the game or whatever it takes to win the game, what kind of game is it? That is what Senator Vandenberg said after World War II and Senator Levin repeated to all of us--that a Senate in which a majority can change the rules any time the majority wants to change the rules is a Senate without any rules. Yet we hear that is what the Democratic majority may be seeking to do this week.…”