Political Quotes

“these past 2 days have been perhaps the most challenging in my life as a United States Congressman. I, first of all, want to thank the gentleman from North Carolina (Chairman Coble) for his patience, his understanding, his wisdom, and his knowledge of this subject. I come to this gentleman's defense not only because of the scholarship and the reputation he has for honesty in this country, but also for the fact that many people have attacked the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Coble) personally because of this bill. I believe that if there is any attack, it should be to the legislative language, and not to an individual's integrity. These have been challenging days. In addition to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Coble), I want to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher), the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. We have labored endlessly in these past 2 days to come up with a bill that protects the integrity of the patent system of this country, while giving fair and open access to it by large corporations and by individual inventors. The bill is not a compromise in that parties give up or gain any rights. Rather, it is a coming together of all interests in forging a bill that represents openly and fairly the interests of everybody, especially and including the American people.”