Political Quotes

“I am for a Constitution America amendment. I am not for this one as written, as I am rarely on a complicated and sensitive subject for the first draft of anything, precisely because I recognize that the Constitution is an important document. What I would like to see is a subcommittee markup and a committee markup dealing with this set of subjects. I know of no one who is capable of excogitating that and then, without any discussion, without anybody else, bringing it forward. So I am in favor of a constitutional amendment. I also share the overwhelmingly majority of opinion, contrary to the gentleman from Texas, that there is plenty of area left by the Supreme Court in which you can legislate. The gentleman suggested that all these bills were unconstitutional, and no one but him thinks that. He is entitled to the splendid solitude of his constitutional opinion, but I do not think it ought to influence the House.”