Political Quotes

“I not only am a lover of cats, but I love flowers, and flowers are very beautiful, and what I saw developing as this bill passed through the House, passed through the Senate, started in the conference up to Wednesday was a beautiful bouquet of flowers that smelled just beautifully. And then Wednesday night, something happened. Wednesday night, a skunk snuck in a beautiful flower garden and smelled up the whole thing, and this bill now just smells, smells, smells terribly. Why? Because of one special interest provision that was put in there for Federal Express. That is all. The rest of the bill is fine. I would like to ask the gentleman from Illinois who worked so hard on this legislation to get all the good points in, and I want to commend him and also the gentleman from Minnesota, the ranking member of the full committee. As my colleagues know, this provision which we have heard here, this leadership, and I will talk about that leadership in a minute, that leadership calls it a technical thing. Did we ever have any hearings on it?”