Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it is good to be here today, but what I feel and what I believe as I am listening and I am hearing the debate is this is not really about words said by Mrs. Greene before she was ever elected overwhelmingly in her district. If it was about language and that we were disciplining because of language, we would have disciplined somebody else on this side, on the Democrat's side, who said: ``Israel has hypnotized the world. May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evildoings of Israel.'' ``It is all about the Benjamins, baby.'' That would invoke some discipline, I would have thought. How about this one comparing Jewish Israeli settlers to termites. That guy didn't get disciplined. He is still on the committees I sit on. He said: There has been a steady stream, almost like termites can get into a residence and eat. And before you know that, you have been eaten up, and you fall in on yourself. {time} 1715 It goes on and it goes on. The Speaker of this House has said that Republicans are enemies of the state. All of these incite violence. All of these demean. All of these dehumanize. All of these are statements that just should not be accepted, but they were accepted. There was no condemnation. And as the last speaker just said, no condemnation is an endorsement. So I guess there is endorsement from all of them on those statements. So here today you are doing something that is unprecedented.…”