Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. Fortunate are those who can vote their conscience and their constituency at the same time. That is a great position to be in. Let me say with regard to this whole 10 and 20 percent, one thing is very important to note. All of the horror stories we have heard, and many of them appear to be clear cases of abuse and misapplication of the statute, would be covered by the 20 percent, and the effort to restrict the number, the effort to defeat 30 percent and the effort to water down the 20 percent makes it very clear. This legislation is not aimed at alleviating those who have been the victims of horror stories, it is aimed at restricting the very operation of these laws as Congress intended them to operate, because if you were worried about the people who were cited in the very poignant examples we have heard, all of them would have been covered by the amendment that the gentleman from California has offered, because they were 100 percent disabilities of their property.”