Political Quotes

“I do not defend obstructionism. I do not defend intimidation, interfering with people who are exercising their constitutional rights, and tragically under our law a woman has a constitutional right to go into an abortion mill and exterminate her unborn child. She has that right tragically, and to try and stop her, to try and intimidate her, I think is a violation of the law and ought to be punished. I am prepared to do that. But let us treat that violation as we would a labor dispute, as we would an environmental dispute, as we would a civil liberties dispute, a military dispute. Why just single out the one cause, and because their motives are to defend unborn children they become a felon, and somebody else becomes guilty of a misdemeanor. That is not the American way. Our purpose here tonight is to focus attention on equal protection of the law and remind Members that they took an oath to defend that concept, and this bill violates it.”