Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I appreciate being recognized here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, and throughout the years I have had the privilege to serve Iowans and Americans here. This is a great deliberative body, although sometimes we miss the facts. And I know that there is a phrase that I heard back in a political era, which is, whenever you lose a vote, you can sometimes use this analysis: Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most can err as grossly as the few. And that has happened a number of times in my 18 years that I have served in this Congress. This is the 116th Congress, and if someone were to ask me, well, what was your favorite session of Congress, I don't have to worry about the 116th being on that list. {time} 1300 But I rise to focus on a specific circumstance here, and that is a misquote of me that was driven into just a national feeding frenzy. It was validated by this Congress, this misquote. And when I stood on the floor of this Congress and made a statement to describe what likely happened in an interview with The New York Times that took place in early January of 2019, I made the point on what that statement was, and the statement was regarding white nationalists, white supremacists. There always was a pause between those two odious ideologies and the term ``western civilization.'' I advised Congress that there would be a distinct pause to demonstrate a new thought started rather than jamming those three ideologies together.…”