Political Quotes

“That is absolutely right. Let me just say, my friend from Minnesota just suggested a point. Under their theory, the way to get the rents lower is to let the authorities charge as much as they want. I guess the way to get people to drive more slowly would be to remove the speed limit altogether. The gentleman from Minnesota is right. I voted to go to 65, but maybe if we took the speed limit off altogether people would go lower. This is the logic of the gentleman from New York. Remember, his amendment says if a person is on welfare and they are making less than 30 percent of the median, they get the protection of the 30-percent cap. He argues again illogically when he says, and I hope he will try to explain this, this is a protection, but if they are working it somehow would become an assault on them. I hope Ed Brooke's original amendment is restored.”