Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of the privileges of the House, and offer the resolution that was previously noticed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the resolution. The Clerk read as follows: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President shall immediately disclose his tax return information to Congress and the American people. Whereas, the Emoluments Clause was included in the U.S. Constitution for the express purpose of preventing federal officials from accepting any ``present, Emolument, Office, or Title . . . from any King, Prince, or foreign State''; Whereas, in Federalist No. 22 (Alexander Hamilton) it is said, ``One of the weak sides of republics, among their numerous advantages, is that they afford too easy an inlet to foreign corruption,'' and; Whereas, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention specifically designed the Emoluments Clause as an antidote to potentially corrupting foreign practices of a kind that the Framers had observed during the period of the Confederation, and; Whereas, Article 1, section 9, clause 8 of the Constitution states: ``no person holding any office of profit or trust . . .…”