Political Quotes

“I had not intended to extend this wonderful discussion because we were trying to get amendments on the Treasury, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Judiciary bill. I invite people to come down and offer amendments. However, since my colleague and neighbor brought it up, I thought I might mention a few things. No. 1, while he might want to root for the White Sox in the World Series, I was hoping he would not neglect and disregard and disrespect all of our wonderful Illinois neighbors who live in the southern part of the State who are St. Louis Cardinal fans. It is with a heavy heart that I tell the people of southern Illinois that the Cardinal fans have been ``dissed'' by my colleague from across the river. I wouldn't normally do that, but since he misquoted what I said, I thought I might as well take the same liberties and misquote what he had to say. First, right there at the end I thought we were almost opening a new front in this debate. Wal-Mart bashing; oh, that is a great liberal sport these days, bashing Wal-Mart. I saw just the hint of Wal-Mart bashing. But I am sorry, I didn't mean to attribute that to my colleague. He walked away from it. So we are not into Wal-Mart bashing. But he did say I wasn't interested in conservation or energy efficiency.…”