Political Quotes

“I am talking now that there are two separate questions here, the ruling which my friend from Michigan was pursuing, and the new rule which the Republicans brought to this House as part of the Contract that said you do not change the Congressional Record; that is subsequent to all of the precedents you are talking about. There are two questions: One, your right to change the ruling; but, two, separate, the one I am focusing on, your right to change words in the Congressional Record in ways that are neither typographical, grammatical or technical, and I submit that changing 'personal' to 'critical,' one more sentence, 'personal' to 'critical,' and 'higher' to 'proper' are none of those. My question is: Why are you ignoring your new rule and changing the words in the Congressional Record, because they look better?”