Political Quotes

“I want to thank the gentlelady from Missouri for hosting this Special Order hour this evening. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Illinois talked about people who come to this country in fleeing religious persecution. As the gentlelady may be aware, my mother emigrated from Ukraine. She was, in fact, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic. As the gentlelady probably knows of the history, when the Soviet Union took over Ukraine, they persecuted the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, burning them to the ground. It is ironic that we are discussing this here--and that the Supreme Court will be taking up this issue--as we are seeing what is going on with religious persecution in Ukraine this week and last week, where the church in Dora, for instance--the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church-- burned to the ground because, you see, the Russian Government didn't agree with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's beliefs. {time} 2130 So what do they do? They burn churches to the ground. It is interesting. We have to learn the lesson, though, because they tried that. After World War II, the Soviet Union tried to destroy churches that way, but they learned the lesson that the church is not the building. The church is the group of believers who share common, deeply held religious beliefs. That is why when the Soviet Union fell, the churches that they thought they had burned to the ground rose up.…”