Political Quotes

“it was a scene reminiscent of the courtroom scene when Scout was asked by the pastor to stand up when her father was leaving the courtroom in To Kill a Mockingbird. When Atticus Finch got up to leave, the pastor turned to Scout and said, ``Scout, your father is leaving the courtroom. Please stand.'' And everybody stood. I was a freshman in 1993. Henry Hyde, for some reason procedurally had been unable to offer his Hyde amendment. William Natcher from Kentucky, who was the chairman of the Appropriations Committee when there was tremendous opposition to Mr. Hyde getting the Hyde amendment through, and he needed unanimous consent to do that, Mr. Natcher stood up and said, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Illinois wishes to offer a unanimous consent motion with which I agree heartily. At that point Mr. Natcher was looking at everybody on the floor, and Henry Hyde got up, and was allowed to offer that amendment, without objection. It was indeed the scene from To Kill a Mockingbird, because were it not for the significance and importance and now the posterity that he will leave with this magnificent gentleman from Illinois, that unanimous consent never would have been honored by this body. We don't have a lot of Henry Hydes around anymore. This place is less for that.…”