Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I was sitting back in my office trying to get some desk work done and watching this debate. I had no intention of speaking, but I have just heard these arguments so many times, and they are tiring, to be perfectly honest. So I did a little bit of work and came up with a couple of quotes I wanted to read. This is relating to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which I have heard referenced on the other side, that talked about a 44-hour workweek and minimum wage at the time. Here are a couple of quotes. The act will destroy small industry . . . these ideas are the product of those whose thinking is rooted in an alien philosophy and who are bent upon the destruction of our whole constitutional system and the setting up of a red-labor communist despotism upon the ruins of our Christian civilization. That is a quote from Representative Cox of Georgia. The Fair Labor Standards Acts constitutes a step in the direction of communism, bolshevism, fascism, and nazism. That is a quote from the National Association of Manufacturers. The Fair Labor Standards Act would create chaos in business never yet known to us . . . no decent American citizen can take exception to this attitude. What I do take exception to is any approach to a solution of this problem which is utterly impractical and in operation would be much more destructive than constructive to the very purposes which it is designed to serve.…”