Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Florida for coming to speak. Madam Speaker, tomorrow, we are going to welcome to this city once again the people who believe in the sanctity of life. They will walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from The Mall and they will be well-behaved. They will be kind. But they will be rising up and letting the people of this United States know that we are concerned about the children in the womb that can't speak for themselves. Madam Speaker, over the years of my time in elected office, I have been asked by many people from both parties: Well, what do you know? You are not a woman, and it is a woman's choice. Well, I am telling you that I hope that no women that I know--and I wish that would never be the case--that they would be in a situation where they are so scared of an unwanted pregnancy that they think that it would hurt their lives. But my wife, my 2 daughters, my 7 granddaughters--and my hope is that with my 11 grandchildren, I have many, many more great-grandchildren-- that they will grow up in a United States that understands the importance of life at its conception, that science, which I believe is now beginning to show what we have known all along, as one speaker spoke earlier, that when that cell is formed and it starts coming together, and then in just a few short hours or a few short days, a heartbeat starts, and then in a few weeks we understand that that baby grows to the point that they can feel pain.…”