Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I do want to address this amendment and I want to oppose it. A lot of my good friends are involved. I must say, I think the heat may be penetrating this building. Maybe we ought to check the air-conditioning. Last night by a very large majority we involved ourselves in whether or not there should be a nude beach at a particular location. Prior to that I had always thought the expression a Member 'voting to cover his rear' was metaphoric. Last night we apparently decided to make that literal. We also passed an amendment yesterday in which I think we voted that the Earth was flat. We told the United Nations to get out of here with this biosphere stuff, and the black helicopter members scored a victory. Today it seems to me we will err again. The proponents have said we should send a message. The message we are sending is that we have run out of things to legislate on that are of serious waste, or that we cannot decide tough issues and we are going to go off into a series of, I think, kind of silly byways.”