Political Quotes

“there are always some remote possibilities that an ill-intentioned law enforcement officer will take the words of any criminal statute and abuse them. There is always the possibility that casually involved people will be given the maximum on the first offense. We know that very rarely happens. What the gentleman is suggesting is that people who are innocently walking by and might be swept up in it would be inappropriately punished by a law enforcement officer and given the maximum. I think that is highly unlikely, especially when what we have is a pattern in which we are not talking about innocent observers who happen to get caught up, we are not talking about people who simply say what they want to say. There has been an organized, coordinated, explicit, self-described national movement that says we will physically keep you from going in, and that is what this bill is aimed at. I think, no matter how it is worded, the gentleman would be opposed to it.”