Political Quotes

“It is my honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. I come before this floor to address a topic that has been front and center in this country since 1973: when the Supreme Court came down with the decisions known as Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, then the subsequent case in the early 1990s, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. This is a nation that has traditionally--and from the very beginning of the very first founding document, the Declaration of Independence-- respected and revered life. As our Founding Fathers put that language together, and as John Adams coached Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Jefferson put his pen to the Declaration of Independence: ``We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.'' Now, Mr. Speaker, it wasn't an accident that the order of these rights that come from God be started out with life, then liberty, then the pursuit of happiness. Of all the scholars that I have talked to and the times that I have sat in the classroom and in my readings, it just never really claim clear.…”