Political Quotes

“I thank the senior minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary, who made such a good statement. I appreciate his reminding me that I have been on the committee, because I could have sworn I was on the committee. I went to a lot of meetings of something that I was told was the Committee on the Judiciary, and I was voting on something called the terrorism bill, but then I see the bill that is on the floor today, and it is not the bill that we worked on in committee. I very much regret the way the leadership of the House, and I do not believe this is a decision of the committee leadership, I am talking about the House leadership, the House leadership and the Committee on Rules. I regret the way they are systematically denigrating the work of the committee. That is not simply a matter of jurisdiction of turf, it is a matter of legislative procedure that goes to substance. We are dealing here with about as important a set of issues as we can. How does a democratic society committee to democracy, committed to individual rights, committed to openness, deal with the murderous threat of a small handful of people, internationally based, who are trying to wreak harm in that society?…”