Political Quotes

“If I may reclaim the floor--and I will finish--the question of the Senator from Nevada was if my second-degree amendment is adopted as part of the Warner underlying amendment, does the Warner amendment go forward? I want to be honest with my colleagues. I think it is a better amendment; that is, the Warner amendment is a better amendment if my adaptation is adopted as a second-degree amendment. Yet, I will still have a problem with his amendment for the reasons I have outlined beyond the adoption of it. It goes too far. I will tell my colleagues that they could vote for the Warner amendment with at least some comfort here should my second-degree pass. Can you imagine the irony of this bill if my amendment is not adopted? If someone catches bin Laden and brings him to the International Criminal Court, the adoption of this amendment would prohibit us from assisting in that prosecution. I can't believe that we would want on record that kind of a judgment.”