Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it is said that hard cases make bad law. That is a legal expression for the fact that when you have some tough circumstances, sometimes it leads to a rule of law, or a case, or precedent, which does a tremendous amount of damage. I believe that is the situation we are facing here on the floor today. What we have, Mr. President, is a couple of TV programs that caught some Senators having a good time at a golf or tennis tournament, which held the institution up to ridicule. And as a result of those television programs, we would put a straitjacket around the activities of Senators, which I believe does more harm to the institution than the correction of whatever problem it is. In the first place, I believe that the problem of purely recreational charity events that are not real charities is a thing of the past anyway.”