Political Quotes

“the reason I asserted my parliamentary rights is because time is a wasting. I would like to ask Senators to do me one favor as a colleague, and that favor is this: to simply visualize yourself in a circumstance where a person who you love maybe more than anyone else in the world, comes to you--it could be your wife, it could be your daughter, it could be a niece, it could be a grandchild, a granddaughter--and that woman who has been flushed with the thrill of a pregnancy, who was waiting with great anticipation with her family for the most blessed event any woman can have, and God has blessed me with two such events, and that loving woman looks in your eyes and says, ``Daddy,'' or ``Brother,'' or ``Mother, I have horrible news. I've been told by my doctor that there's a horrible turn of events that has happened in this pregnancy that we could not learn until the very late stages. And if I don't have this procedure''--the one that is outlawed in this bill, may I say--``my doctor says I might die or I might never be able to have another baby or I might be paralyzed for life. What should I do? Will you support me?'' I really think, if we are totally honest, as the distinguished Democratic leader has tried to put forward in his eloquence, I think every one of us would reach inside, and that love would overwhelm us and we would save that child, that wife, that granddaughter, and we would face this together with her doctor and our God, and we would not call a U.S.…”