Political Quotes

“I note that the Senator from Texas has to be elsewhere in a moment, but if she could stay just for a moment I would like to suggest that something exceptional has happened tonight. It may be something that Benjamin Disraeli wrote turns out to be wrong, and this is a new thought to me. But I was going to read a passage from Coningsby published in 1870 when the young Coningsby is having breakfast with the old duke, and the old duke says: In a couple of years or so you will enter the world; it is a different thing to what you read about. It is a masquerade; a motley, sparkling multitude in which you may mark all forms and colours, and listen to all sentiments and opinions; but where all you see and hear has only one object, plunder. Now, I think that the Senator from Texas, having said it is clearly the case that she is going to oppose a proposal in which the chief beneficiary in the first instance and on a superficial level perhaps would be the State of Texas, leads me to raise the question: Did Disraeli get it right or was it invariably a rule, or is there a Hutchison exception? In any event, I thank her for her remarks and do observe if this measure would cost the State of California $5.4 billion and the State of New York $4.6 billion, it hardly would be a promising addition to the legislation, the underlying bill before us. I would like to talk just a little bit about this subject, Madam President. We are talking about Federalism here.…”