Political Quotes

“I would like to take it a step further in that I was persuaded last year that in some localities, in some localities there was a problem with local law enforcement which could not or did not act adequately to protect these clinics or to prosecute individuals after violence has occurred and, therefore, I supported the bill which became law in the last Congress which made it a Federal offense to have violence at a reproductive clinic. I have to add though this is a subject again perhaps for another day. Based upon what I know of the Justice Department's enforcement of that act, I have been very disappointed, because the cases that I am familiar with at least where they prosecuted under this act under Federal law, there was a simultaneous State prosecution. I do not understand why the Justice Department would prosecute and use Federal resources where there is already, in fact, a State prosecution.”