Eleanor Norton actually said...

"It is the only way to ensure a judicial system that is representative of community values."

"It should be noted for the record that the territories don't pay Federal income taxes and the District is No. 1 per capita in Federal income taxes."

"the important point here is that I looks like the Framers understood that they couldn't put everything in the Constitution."

"For too long, we have both accepted and perpetuated a fundamentally flawed system."