Political Quotes

“I have watched a lot of debate in my life on television usually between Senatorial candidates. Sometimes the hyperbole gets pretty extreme. One phrase I have heard pretty often, ``You are shameless, you are shameless.'' I would never bring that word to bear here in this Chamber. I must say I advise my friend from Texas of an old equitable doctrine called clean hands. You do not come to court complaining of somebody's dirty hands unless you have clean hands yourself. That is the problem, the fatal flaw with your argument. There are eight Democratic amendments made in order, six Republican, on this legislation, and your complaint is we are only five times as generous as you were. Now, I look at the motor voter bill. That was a big one, one amendment, one. Assault weapons. Did that reach into the States and the cities and the communities? Zero, zip, nada, no amendments at all. My God, and you have the chutzpah to complain that you have got eight amendments here? How do you do it? What do you drink? What do you eat that gives you that? How about reinventing government? How many Republican amendments on that one? Zero. How about campaign reform? There is a big one. How many Republican amendments did you permit in your Committee on Rules? Zero. Motor voter, assault weapons, omnibus budget reconciliation, one Republican amendment. Thank you, thank you very much. One Republican.…”