Political Quotes

“Mr. President, let me say to my friend from Indiana, I just talked to the representative of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. They much prefer the existing policy. The reason they are on this particular amendment is because they feel this is far superior than the House language, but they prefer the current policy. I will further say, just trying to exercise a little common sense-- and, Mr. President, I feel many times we think these things are over our head--if your daughter found herself in a circumstance where she was raped, let us say, and, let us say she found out within a month that she was pregnant and she made the decision to end this pregnancy, she did not want to bear this rapist's child, and someone asked you, ``Senator, I've got two doctors available to do this. One of them performed a D&C a few times and never did a surgical abortion and one has the experience,'' I do not think it takes a degree in science to know that if you want her to be safe, you want her to go to someone who had the actual experience of performing a surgical abortion. So I simply do not buy into this argument that because someone performed a D&C and it is similar--it is not the same thing, by any stretch of the imagination.”