Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come back again to congratulate and thank the chairman and ranking member of this committee, Senator Dodd and Senator McConnell, for their great work. It has been 10 long, arduous months to do something that is vitally important to the health and the vitality of our system of legislative government. The 2000 election opened the eyes of many Americans to the flaws and failures of our election machinery, our voting systems, and even how we determine what a vote is. We learned of hanging chads, inactive lists, and we discovered our military votes were mishandled and lost. We learned that legal voters were turned away while dead voters cast ballots. We discovered that many people voted twice while too many were not even counted once. That is why we are here today. The final compromise bill--and it is a compromise in the true essence of the word--tries to address each of these fundamental problems we have discovered and to meet the basic test. That test, I trust all of my colleagues now understand, is that we must make it easier to vote but tough to cheat.”