Political Quotes

“weak and thirsty, Elizabet spent the last hours of her life praying to God to protect her son, Elian; to guide him to safety in the land of liberty. She shaded Elian with her own body, gave him bottled water so he would not dehydrate, did everything humanly possible so that he would live. As darkness enveloped her frail body and before she disappeared into the depths of the Atlantic, she turned to Elian and said to him, ``My child, remember that prayer I taught you? Pray to your guardian angel. Ask him to watch over you, for you are in God's hands now.'' Elizabet succumbed to the power of the sea, but Elian continued to pray and; on Thanksgiving Day, he would be saved under what one of his rescuers has classified as miraculous circumstances. Mr. Speaker, one cannot help but wonder if there was divine intervention. As former President Ronald Reagan has said: without God, there is no prompting of the conscience. So I ask my colleagues to search their conscience and consider what is right and just before making a decision on Elian's case. We can still hear his mother's last wishes from the depths of the sea.”