Political Quotes

“I am about to wind this up. But my friend, I think what he illustrates is that each and every event is going to require a special ruling from the Ethics Committee. Because, if what is in my head when I think about this event, whether it is principally a substantive event--I mean, the National Cancer Institute, for example. They always have their meetings in Jamaica, or Aspen, or one of these places. If there is ever a substantive group, that is it. But any one of these groups is going to have their conference in a nice place. Otherwise, people will not come. Even though I want to be there to make the speech, the fact that it is in a nice place is part of the reason. How can you separate that out. Say I am doing this strictly for the business, and after I finish speaking, I am going to go back to my room, lock the door, pull down the shades and not look outside at the sunshine, and certainly I am not going to go into that swimming pool. If it is OK if I make the judgment, you know, if I fooled myself, and say I am going only for the business part of this, how about somebody else? 20/20 comes in there, takes the picture of it, and it has the appearance of being bought or something? I mean, how can it be worse if they already think you can be bought for a basket of fruit?”