Political Quotes

“And I would conclude by just putting a cap on the discussion about the U.S. Constitution. Society at that time had in it the virtues, the values, the structure that allowed for the debate to go forward. The name of the resolution to the problems that confronted our founding forefathers was none other than the Connecticut Compromise, and how well we would be to incorporate the language or the vocabulary, the word ``compromise'' back into our debate that would allow us to go forward with discussions that would ultimately allow us to find resolution incorporating a little bit of everybody's ideas. We have a President, I believe, who understands this value. There are individuals in this Congress, I believe, who want to incorporate these philosophies. We also are coming off of a time, and we still see the results in some Members' philosophies, that want to divide and conquer and destroy in order to build up out of the ashes. We cannot fall prey to that mentality. We have to hopefully see the greater glory and the greater value in incorporating the vision of our founding forefathers in coming up with the kinds of solutions that I think ultimately can be far more exciting, far more productive, and far more impacting on the attitudes of all Americans.”