Political Quotes

“I am going to oppose this rule for a number of reasons. But first and foremost, this is supposed to be a democracy. This is supposed to be the place where the Members who were sent here by about 550,000 people, citizens of this country, have the opportunity to make things better. Unfortunately the Committee on Rules in many instances decided that those people do not count, that we cannot make things better, that we do not even have the chance to make things better. One of the things that I would have very much liked to addressed and asked the Committee on Rules yesterday to address involves the war on drugs. Our Nation spends about $12 billion on the war on drugs. As I speak we have AWAC's flying over Central and South America. We have what is called E-3's and P-3's flying over Central and South America. We have troops on the ground in Colombia in at least 3 different locations. At one of those locations about 80 miles away, the Colombia guerrillas overran a Colombian army base and either killed or captured everyone there in the month of February. It is a real war, with real deaths.”