Political Quotes

“as I have spoken earlier concerning the issue now before this body, the question of privilege, in terms of the tradition of the House and whether or not the President of France should be honored or be given the privilege of addressing a joint session of Congress tomorrow, as I speak, Mr. Speaker, as it is true with almost every young American learning about civics, the history of our Nation itself, how it was conceived, the fact that this Nation itself has a tradition of being a former colony of the British Empire, the fact that there are some very fundamental traditions that I think I can say without equivocation about what America stands for, the principles of democracy and human rights and all due respect for other human beings to live in their respective areas or regions, as I speak before my colleagues in this body, I notice there are only two murals or two picture frames that are part of the decor of our Chamber, and that of the great President, our first President of the United States, George Washington, and I see on the other corner of this Chamber a great leader, a great French patriot by the name of Marquis de Lafayette, a great patriot who supported wholeheartedly the cause of the American colony for its interests in wanting very much to be free from the shackles of British colonialism, and the fact that representation without taxation, as a principle, simply was not in order, and the fact that our country was conceived in blood, and we fought for thos…”