Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I rise in strenuous opposition to the measure before us. Before I get into some other remarks, let me just respond about the new-found trust that the majority party has in local government. We trust local government as well. as a matter of fact, we not only trust them, we listen to them. And when we listen to them, we listen to the policemen that they say we do not trust, the policemen that we are listening to in the Fraternal Order of Police, who say that the crime bill that divided out the prevention program from the Cops on the Beat Program was the way to go. The international Brotherhood of Police Officers, their chiefs and police officers, saw that the 1994 crime bill created a community police program of 100,000 policemen. That was what they wanted to do. The Major Cities Chiefs representatives, we just talked to them only an hour ago, and they again are here urging that we turn down this proposal that the Republican majority has dreamed up. The National Association of Police Officials, police organizations, with Bob Colley, a 30-year police officer from Detroit, are all testifying 100 percent on behalf of the 1994 crime bill: namely a return to community police as a separate program and not put it into a block grant with prevention, so that we may not end up with the Hobson's choice of either prevention or police.”