Political Quotes

“What would the Senator hypothesize? Would the Senator hypothesize that the households in which the children grow up no longer have anyone who will defend them? ``You can't come in here. And you will please go out there and close the door behind you.'' Lee Rainwater, a whole generation ago studying the public housing in Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis, wrote an essay on the feeling within a household, ``Can you say no to someone who wants to come in?'' A thought that perhaps would not occur to many persons here. Close your door at night, and that is it. Close yours, and I close mine. The French sociologist, Henri Bergson spoke at the turn of the century of society becoming a dust of individuals--no ties. I think this new data on ages of the fathers suggests that. I think you are absolutely right; if anybody could mobilize the attorneys general, the Senator from Connecticut could. I will certainly support that amendment. I look forward to it. And I thank you for your comments. I know the Senator from Pennsylvania would agree we are trying to reach some understandings here.”