Political Quotes

“I will tell you one thing about most of the businessmen from all over the country who come to me for help. They never say anything at all about what help the State Department gives them. It is the Commerce Department officials who they mention--not these people stationed over there in the embassies. So it is a lot of baloney to say that, boy, these ambassadors are doing a great job. Some of them are. But I tell you the businessmen in my State and other States who come to me I have called many times overseas, I have written many times overseas and it is not the bureaucrat in the State Department who renders the help. It is the people from the Commerce Department who are stationed in the embassies. So let us get that straight. I am not going to sit here and take a lot of baloney about what I am trying to do and what this amendment tries to do, because the amendment speaks for itself. I am perfectly capable of speaking for myself. I do not need the Senator from Massachusetts to speak for me.”