Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady from Minnesota for pulling this together and for yielding. And, Mr. Speaker, I'm listening to the presentation by the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Brooks), about the rule of law and the application of the rule of law. And he concluded that segment with ``thy liberty in law.'' And I look around this Chamber and I see a doctor, a lawyer, a doctor of all species except homo sapiens in the animal kingdom, a tax lawyer, and a lawyer and a judge who wanted to legislate, left the bench and ran for Congress, and got it right, Mr. Gohmert. Now that might appear, Mr. Speaker, to the people that are watching in on C-SPAN that this is too hard for maybe some folks that don't fit those categories to understand. So I want to make the point that I stand here, I'm a ditch digger, and I understand this. It is not complicated. All you have to do is understand that this is a great country, and we have a role to play here, each one of us, and it is to defend, preserve, protect and, in the case of the modern world, refurbish the pillars of American exceptionalism. And an essential pillar of American exceptionalism is, as Mr. Brooks articulated so well, the rule of law. You are not going to have liberty without law, the application of the law.…”