Political Quotes

“I represent a State that is very large in area but small in numbers of people. The State of Nevada until recent years was a State that had very, very few people. We have had rapid growth in southern Nevada in recent years, and now we have many more people residing in the State of Nevada. But it is still a very small State in the numbers of people. During the last century, the State of Nevada had so few people in it that there was talk in this Chamber about doing away with the State of Nevada, there were so few people in it. Mr. President, during those years a Senator from the State of Nevada had the same power as a Senator from the very populous State of New York. The Founding Fathers in their wisdom set up this Government so that a State like Nevada, a State like Alaska, a State like Vermont, having few people, would still have the ability to represent the people in that State on the same basis as those States that had large numbers of people. Mr. President, I believe that the Founding Fathers were right. The power of the filibuster, even though it, in my opinion, has been abused in recent years, allows Senators representing lightly populated States to enjoy the same voting strength as other States.”