Political Quotes

“let me give another example. Two people for whom I have an enormous amount of respect are two people who may be considered to have betrayed the family tie, but they are the Kaczynskis, Ted Kaczynski's brother and mother. They were not compelled, but they came forward. But that is an example. They came forward. Since they came forward, I think lives were saved, innocent lives were saved because they took this dangerous murderer off the streets. If, in fact, the prosecutor became aware that Mrs. Kaczynski had information that could have led, as it in fact did, to the apprehension of her son, I do not see why we would want to give absolute privilege for a man in his 50s and his mother so that she could not be compelled to testify. In her case it was voluntary, but we could have seen a situation where that compulsory testimony could have been useful. Yes, where we are talking about a small child, maybe a teenager, it is a very appealing situation. Maybe we ought to tailor a privilege for that. But where we are talking about Ted Kaczynski's mother and Ted Kaczynski, I do not think it is at all immediately obvious that we ought to, on this floor today, to vote to give somebody like that preference.”