Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, 15 minutes, a good 45 minutes of going strong here, and not a sip of water. Mr. Speaker, I will use my 15 minutes. I am going to say this because we had the 2000 election, which was really determined by the Supreme Court. People who were in the political process and people who surround the lawmaking of this Nation, instead of saying, gosh, what are the American people telling us over and over again? We are closer together than we are further apart. {time} 1945 We have a four-seat effort to have a new majority in the Congress. We have a 50-50 Senate. We have an electoral college, which was somewhat designed to placate and recognize legal and important matters in the United States of America. We have an electoral college that has determined a handful of these elections, particularly in this century. We want to say your vote matters. Well, the popular vote is recognized, but it is not determinative, and we really haven't reformed or adjusted a thing. We have just continued on. We haven't made amendments. We haven't added States to the Union. We have just said, this is the way it is going to be. We are experiencing a somewhat frustrating and tragic uptick in the disappointment of our fellow countrymen and women. They don't trust the system. It astonishes me. This is the time in the process of elections where, of course, I am in rigorous conversation with voters, but I am also in rigorous conversation with people who aren't voting the way I am. Why is that?…”