Political Quotes

“Madam President, the proceedings on the amendment before us show just how broken the Senate is under the current leadership. Yesterday the majority leader stated: We're going to have a cloture vote to stop debate on this. [Republicans] say, well, great, we'll go ahead and support that because we can stall. He also said: There will be no amendments. Either you're for campaign spending reform or not. So my Republican colleagues, they can stall for time here. This is an ``Alice in Wonderland,'' upside-down world the majority leader is describing. You can bet that if Republicans were blocking Democrats from describing this amendment, we would be accused of obstruction. But when we vote to proceed to this amendment, as we did yesterday, we are also accused of obstruction. It goes to show that whatever Republicans do, we will be accused of obstruction. That is a catch-22. That is the majority's game plan--bring up partisan measures for political posturing, avoid working together to solve problems, and blame the other side no matter what the other side does. That is why the Senate is broken. The amendment before us would amend the Bill of Rights and do it for the first time. It would amend one of the most important of those rights--the right of free speech. The First Amendment provides that Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech. The proposed amendment would give Congress and States the power to abridge that freedom of free speech.…”