Political Quotes

“I don't believe in negotiating in public. This is not just an intellectual exercise for our colleagues from Florida because the entire world inhabited their State for a number of weeks, and the entire world watched on an excruciating basis, hour after hour of voting precincts, what they went through. It was a tremendous ordeal that the State of Florida went through. My colleagues are being mild in their expression of the frustration their constituents felt. I also understand the point my friend from Missouri raised. We said over and over again that this bill is about the future and not about the past. We are trying to deal with not only the situation in Florida, or one election, but, rather, a condition that has grown over the years of a corroding and deteriorating condition of the election process in America, that was reflected by what happened in the year 2000 but not exclusively so. We wanted to get away from the notion of examining, through this vehicle anyway, what had happened last year.”