Political Quotes

“This is an important bill. I support it; I urge its adoption. I have to take this opportunity to address another vital issue that we are addressing this week in Congress, but we are not having any time to debate, practically speaking. All special orders have been shut down, all 1 minutes have been shut down, practically speaking, so I am going to take this moment and address the impeachment issue, which we will be voting on as early as Wednesday. I rise to highlight the work of the late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who wrote the book, ``Profiles in Courage.'' In this book, then-Senator Kennedy highlighted six Senators who each took a stand for what they knew was right, risking their political futures in favor of their convictions. One of these Senators was Kansas Senator Edmund Ross, who courageously cast the deciding vote against his own political party and against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson despite enormous pressure from his colleagues in Congress. Senator Ross was a brilliant freshman senator with enormous potential, yet he sacrificed it all with one vote in 1868. During the process, an onlooker overheard him say that he had no sympathy for President Johnson but wanted to see a fair trial. Ross' reverence for the Constitution and the institutions of American government superseded the wishes of his own political party.…”