Political Quotes

“There is no carte blanche authority given to the President by this amendment of mine. This amendment strengthens. There is nothing requiring notification in the War Powers Act. This amendment says the President shall in every possible--not may--shall report to Congress before, before the troops go in; and then after the introduction, the President shall. So we will be informed. The same thing goes for the report. We are not required to leave our common sense out in the Rotunda. The facts of life are Lyndon Johnson could not even go to his own convention because the people did not support what he was doing in Vietnam. And that lesson has not been lost on anybody with a room temperature IQ. So do not think the War Powers Act forces the President to consult. No President who wants to survive another week will omit consulting.”