Political Quotes

“My only correction of the distinguished Senator is it is $2.5 billion a week the war is costing us, about $10 billion a month. I mentioned, I say to my friend, the definition I got in college about a central hole divided into self-governing parts of the States. I always thought the Republican majority, as it is now, believed in States rights. That is what federalism is all about. Where in this debate, that shouldn't be taking place on the floor right now, is there any inkling of States rights? None. Forty-five States have already, through statute or constitutional amendment, as in Nevada--Nevada amended its constitution on this issue. But where are my friends, my Republican friends? Where are they on this issue of States rights? This isn't the first time we have brought up issues that have been defeated, defeated, defeated. Medical malpractice is something the State of Nevada took on on its own, set their own rules. The Governor called a special session of the legislature. We now have rules in the State of Nevada dealing with medical malpractice. That is not good enough for this Republican majority. We have voted, I believe, three times on a national law dealing with medical malpractice--take the States out of the picture. So I ask my friend, he being involved in Government in one way or another most of his adult life, does he remember the Republicans at one time standing for States rights?”