Political Quotes

“It's a treat to be able to rise and say the en bloc amendment is fine, just as most of what is in the bill is fine. Unfortunately, there is an amendment that's being offered which threatens to poison the entire package and to do great damage to our military, and that is an issue that you've heard from earlier this day, the idea of repealing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell legislation. Now, the way it works currently in the military is that if you happen to be homosexual and you want to serve in the military, that's fine. And as long as your particular sexual tastes don't get in the way of performing the mission, there's no problem. The point is that the military has a job to protect our citizens, and we don't want things getting in the way of that. If you were to commit adultery, you could be discharged because that gets in the way of our performing our mission. Now, we face an amendment here, which is opposed by all of our military leadership, which says we're going to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell.”