Political Quotes

“This bill does not prevent anyone from exercising their first amendment rights. Nothing in the Act will prohibit any expressive conduct, including peaceful picketing or other peaceful demonstration, protected by the first amendment. It says so explicitly in the act. Comparisons to the civil rights movement are, in the words of USA Today, "grotesque rhetorical gargle" and "outrageous". This bill is also not about the first amendment, nor about political correctness. It is about fighting domestic terrorism. Shootings, arson, vandalism, firebombings and chemical attacks are not the tools of civil opposition nor even civil disobedience. State and local governments have not been able to protect our citizens, and if our citizens cannot live without fear of bodily harm, without fear of violence and intimidation while they exercise their rights, whether in earning a legal living or in exercising their right to choose, then Federal action becomes necessary.”