Political Quotes

“abhorrent as the remarks of the speaker at Kean College in New Jersey were, I do not think enough attention is being given to the enthusiastic response that his hateful words received from his college student audience. The applause of those young people scares me a lot more than the idiotic statements that were made by this person, and I think that there is an awful lot of work to be done to understand why such language has such an appeal to so many young people. Mr. Speaker, the language of this resolution does not call for any civilian or criminal penalties. It does, however, flatly express the sense of Congress that the deliberate abuse of another's deeply held beliefs and the systematic abuse of another's deeply held beliefs and the systematic condemnation of persons based on ethnicity, race, or religion is an offense to democratic civility, and this resolution is an expression of our right of freedom of speech to condemn what we find patently contemptible.”