Robert Byrd: “Congress has authorized the most aggressive miner protection laws in the history of the world--history of the universe.”

The path of wilderness legislation can be as rugged as the land itself.

The Framers recognized that a minority can be right and that a majority can be wrong.

This isn't the average. This is deplorable, is what it is. It's not average, and it's not acceptable.

makes the majority leader and the majority party the subject of the minority, subject to the control and the will of the minority.