Political Quotes

“If the Senator from Georgia will yield for a moment, the point here is not to extract an apology for the sake of an apology, but rather, I think, to make a larger point. Clearly, when the Speaker of the House is vilified the way he was without good reason, and we know now incorrectly if not with animus, he is owed an apology. But the point of these attacks was to try to distract attention away from the specific charge and the problem that was being alluded to by the Speaker. That is where I think these people owe an apology to the American public, because they were trying to divert attention away from a condition, a problem, and it is very much like the way the administration has treated this drug war from the very beginning. It is basically a nonwar, and that is why drug use has gone up during this administration's tenure. They have to focus back on the fact that what they say matters. The way the President acts matters a great deal, especially to the young people in this country. He is the first really young new-generation President here. As a result, I think young people really look to President Clinton because he is younger than most of the Presidents have been in recent years. When they see him act in a relatively cavalier way, then they are going to pick up on that. That appears to be what is happening, if you look at the statistics.…”