Political Quotes

“If the Senator will yield, I not only would guess, I know that the leadership, Democrat and Republican, of the National Attorneys General Association and the District Attorneys Association would be and are opposed to either the proposition offered in the House Judiciary Committee-passed provision or the anticipated alternative about to be offered, I believe, I am not certain of this, by Congressman Derrick. But I think, regardless of whether or not anyone accepts either of our characterizations of where the prosecutors of America stand on this issue, I think this discussion, where we are trying to agree and cannot, is illustrative of how difficult it will be to reach a compromise where we do not agree and we are trying to reach agreement. We cannot even agree when we are trying to agree when it comes to habeas corpus. I would suggest it is nearly impossible for us to agree in time to pass a crime bill where we have serious substantive disagreements. I will conclude my comments on this for the day by saying, I happen to substantively agree with the approach taken, as I understand it, by the Derrick amendment that is going to be proposed in the House. But I practically do not agree with this incorporation because it will have the effect of torpedoing something I have worked now 5 years to put together--5 years--and that is the core of the crime bill we passed out of here and that they are about to pass on the floor of the House. So I want the record to be clear.…”