Political Quotes

“Let the record show that we on this side respect our friends who may be in the United States and may not be citizens and who are welcome to our shores and are doing business inside our borders. They are complying with the law, and, therefore, they are considered friends of ours. They have chosen to come and do business among us, and they should be made welcome. They should not, however, be given favored treatment. My dear friend from California, who has been of such help on the Committee on Rules, has pointed out that the little barber from some other country here who concocts his own shaving cream somehow is going to be subject to the venomous provisions of the Product Liability Act that we have passed with this provision in it. That may be a little bit overstating the case because the American born, local neighborhood barber, who buys his Barbasol off the rack, would be subject to the exact same treatment, if it is conceivable in this hypothetical that anybody else would be. He would be treated the same under the amendment that we have adopted. By the way, this is not the idea of the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Dingell]. It is an idea that has gone through the committee process. We have had witnesses on it. It has been deliberated in the full House of this body. It has passed overwhelmingly.”