Political Quotes

“It is my privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. I would say in defense of the K-9 Corps--and I appreciate the presentation delivered by Dr. Yoho and my great friend from Florida, who gets common sense right in this Congress--that I am a fan of the K- 9 Corps. I am also a fan of the ``benign corps.'' And I want the ``benign corps'' to be thinking about what that means. It is not just a bingo game, but it is bingo for a cancer patient. So when you get the diagnosis of K-9 or benign, I am taking benign over K-9 because that is the thing that we celebrate more than anything else, is that lease on life, that if it goes 5 years, you are cancer-free. Benign cancer-free for 5 years, that gets the job done. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for standing up for the K-9 Corps, and I am now going to stand up for the ``unborn corps.'' Mr. Speaker, I came here to the floor to speak this evening about this Nation and about a nation that has granted to its Supreme Court-- sometimes just because we weren't paying attention or we didn't have the confidence of our convictions--I suppose there was a time when Americans were no better informed on constitutional principles than we are today. Over 216 or so years, we have had this experience of accepting the idea of Marbury v.…”