Political Quotes

“The more you probe into this, the more of a Rube Goldberg contraption it is. Actually what happens is, the more we debate this section, the more you come to understand and appreciate the perceptions and the wisdom of the drafters of the Constitution. It is incredible that we are out here playing games with a document that has withstood 206 years of scrutiny and was put together by a group of men whom Gladstone, the great British Prime Minister, regarded as the greatest assemblage of statesmen in the history of the world. That was his comment about them in framing the Constitution of the United States. Yet, we are playing games with it all throughout here. You have a three-fifths of the whole number requirement, you have a majority of the whole number requirement, you have a waiver requirement. You are negating the tie-breaking vote given to the Vice President of the United States, as I understand it, under another provision of the Constitution.”