Political Quotes

“today on this floor we will vote on the Private Property Protection Act. This is critically important legislation, and I urge each and every one of my colleagues to support it. The principle in America that private property cannot be taken from our citizens without paying them just compensation for that private property is at the heart of our form of government. It is, indeed, one of those values that we as American hold sacred. Yet, yesterday Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt called this legislation an attack on America's great natural resources. Absolutely nothing could be further from the truth. It is a sad day in America when officials of our national government openly advocate taking property from our citizens without compensating that those who own that property. We are all agreed that we must protect our natural resources, but we must not do that by stealing property from them or by nationalizing their resources. I urge my colleagues to support the Private Property Protection Act.”