Political Quotes

“I salute the chairman for his determination to keep the American Government going through this period, and that is what this resolution is about, the continuity of Congress and the continuity of government. We are here to keep the great American experiment in democratic self-government alive through the pandemic, through the crisis. The first sentence of the Constitution, the Preamble, says: We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and preserve to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty, do hereby ordain and establish the Constitution of the United States. The very next sentence vests all legislative power to us, in Article I, in the Congress, and gives us the right to determine the rules of our own proceedings. That is what the Supreme Court calls a political question. It cannot be second-guessed by the Senate. It cannot be second-guessed by the President. It cannot be second-guessed even by the Supreme Court. It is up to us what our rules of proceeding are going to be. Mr. Speaker, I have watched the debate, and one can only regard with amazement the full outrage summed up by our colleagues who display great reservoirs of self-righteousness.…”