Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, my amendment is an amendment that I offered before in the past. It simply says: ``None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enforce Executive Order 13166.'' That is an executive order that was filed by then-President Clinton on August 16 in the year 2000, in the last months of his Presidency, that directs all Federal fund recipients--and that would include Federal contractors, State and local governments, as well as the Federal Government--to facilitate language interpretation with anyone who seeks to engage with them. That has been an executive order that has been highly costly not only to the taxpayers, but to the consumers in this country, in time and in money. It was one of the initial things that began to slow down this process of assimilation in America. We know that a common language is the most powerful unifying force known throughout all of history, whether it is English or whether it is some other language in some other country, and that we have a strong effort to establish English as the official language of the United States. I happen to be the author of that accomplishment in the State of Iowa. Thirty other States have English as the official language, and some 83 percent of Americans support this policy. Yet President Clinton's executive order subverts this and works to fracture us rather than unify us. So it will save us billions of dollars.…”