Political Quotes

“first of all, let me say, I am very happy that the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler) was never aborted. I am glad he is here. He stimulates the discussion. He is even fun, on occasion; and I am very glad that the gentleman survived. I also would like to say that yesterday, I heard two gentlewomen from the other side complain that they have kept a scorecard, and over 200 times in the immediate years we have had to vote on abortion. That was a considerable annoyance to them, and I regret that. But I do not think any single issue defines the difference between the two sides better than that remark about having to vote 200 times on abortion, because that indicates that abortion is not all that important to them. After all, it is a thing. It is a commodity. It is a throw-away, used Kleenex; but it is not a life, a human life. Now, of course, we feel differently. We feel it is a human life. We feel it is entitled to respect and dignity, and it is entitled to due process of law. And, of course, they deny that.”