Political Quotes

“I am espousing neither as a philosophical principle. The inconsistency is wholly on the gentleman's side. Members on our side have not claimed to be all for States' rights. And I appreciate the gentleman's acknowledging the inconsistency here. We have said we will make policy according to what we think is the best public policy. And we do believe, and this is the key point, when police officers have been authorized and have been hired and when this program is at work and going forward to come in now and disrupt this process and to say to communities, I know you have hired police officers, but too bad, because there has been a partisan change and we are going to disrupt that ongoing process, we are not content to do a new program and then we will call it States rights to make ourselves feel better.”