Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Colorado for recognizing me to speak here on this Special Order to honor National Bible Week. It starts off, for me, this way, Mr. Speaker. I will go to Psalm 139:13: ``For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.'' God knew us all in the womb. At the moment that we were formed in our mother's womb, from that moment of fertilization, that moment of conception, He gave us life. I believe that is also the instant that He places the soul in all of us who are created in His image. Once we recognize that and we recognize also that our Founding Fathers understood this as well when they laid out the prioritized rights in the Declaration of Independence--and they prioritized these rights as the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It wasn't just pulling three different words out of a grab bag and putting them up there in the Declaration of Independence, but, instead, they were prioritized. Our pursuit of happiness cannot trample on anyone else's liberty or life, and exercise of our liberty cannot take someone else's life. Life is the paramount right, and this is natural law. It is God's law. It is the laws of nature and nature's God. I serve here in this Congress, and, for all the time that I have been here, the priority has always been to protect innocent unborn human life. That has brought about H.R. 490, the Heartbeat bill. I wear this pin on my lapel, Mr.…”