Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it's my privilege to be recognized by you here on the floor of the House of Representatives, and it's my privilege to follow the gentleman from Texas as we close out this legislative week and a lot of the Members are on their way to the airport, or at the airport now, going back to serve their constituents. I'll be there myself, and I trust Mr. Gohmert will be too. I wanted to come to the floor and talk about this country that we have, this civilization that we have, the foundations of our civilization, and what's required to retain them and enhance them and move this country beyond the shining city on the hill and to a place beyond there onward and upward. Ronald Reagan often described the shining city on the hill. He described it as an America that is. An America that was and an America that is. We were always challenged by the dream, but he didn't actually articulate, that I recall, something beyond this shining city. But societies must progress, and those that progress the most effectively and those that can be sustained the longest need to be built upon solid pillars. The shining city on the hill standing true and strong on a granite ridge was built on a solid foundation, and I argue that the foundation of it are the pillars of American exceptionalism, and those pillars are listed in the Bill of Rights.…”