Political Quotes

“I rise to speak on this bill with a very unique association with the subject matter. On February 3, 1993, after a frantic day as a Member of Congress representing the State of North Dakota, I went to National Airport, met my wife who also had gone to the airport, and we eagerly, anxiously awaited the arrival of our soon-to-be daughter, an infant born in Korea, flown over and placed with us and now an adopted part of our family. To tell my colleagues that this has so profoundly, fundamentally changed and improved our lives is a hopeless understatement of the glory we have experienced as adoptive parents, and I am very pleased to tell the House tonight that we are within two weeks or three weeks of going back to National Airport and coming home with a son, also born in Korea. As I looked at what the legislation before us is trying to accomplish in terms of breaking down barriers of interracial adoption, as the parent of a daughter who is a member of another race, I cannot speak passionately enough in terms of the importance of breaking these barriers down. Children need families. Families need children. Some notion of political correctness that would leave people languishing in foster homes rather than reach across racial barriers for parents who will love them, love them as their very own, has got to be ended and I am so pleased with this facet of the legislation that puts an end to it.”