Political Quotes

“I rise to introduce the Driver's License Fraud Prevention Act. This is a timely bill that would provide much needed Federal assistance to the States to help make their driver's licenses more reliable and secure than they are today. I am pleased that my colleagues, Senator McCain, has joined me in this effort. Since September 11, 2001, we have learned much about our society. We learned in the most painful way that those aspects of our open society that we, as Americans, value the most, are the very same characteristics exploited by people who hate freedom. Our open borders welcome millions of visitors and immigrants each year. Our civil society is based on the integrity of our citizens to self regulate their behaviors and to abide by the rule of law. And our very informal system of personal identification relies on the honesty of people to represent themselves as who they are, and to not hide their true identities. Yet, after September 11, we learned that it was the very openness of our society that the nineteen terrorists took advantage of by slipping into our country and mingling among us for months before embarking on their evil tasks.”