Political Quotes

“I would like to tell the Members that I have had an opportunity since we first started on this to look at this 33-page bill. As I look through this bill, I find page 1 through 13 has to do with airport and aviation safety. Those are basically good provisions. They are for the future. There is nothing going to happen today, nothing going to happen tomorrow, nothing going to happen next week. That is for the future. On pages 13 to 16, we have the RICO provisions, predicated to bring these other things under RICO. Big deal. On pages 17 and 18, there is the big diplomatic efforts that were alluded to by the Speaker, and I think basically make this bill a partisan bill, because they are trying to say that this administration has done nothing as far as terrorism is concerned. And if Members would listen to these people over here, especially the gentleman from Kentucky who spoke in the well earlier, he would lead us to believe that the President of the United States is responsible for what happened in New York and what happened in Atlanta. That is crazy. Nothing could be further from the truth. The President of the United States is not responsible. This administration is not responsible. Why do you try to say so right in this bill? Yes. When you add what your Speaker has said today to what is in this bill, there is no question about it. Pure politics.”