Political Quotes

“I just want to say in the brief 2 minutes that we have here that this is a pretty important issue that we are faced with. And I should say just at the outset that I have the greatest respect for my friend, Mr. Sessions. I consider him to be a friend. I hope to get to know Mr. Fitzpatrick as well and to call him a friend as well. But what we are dealing with today is perhaps the most basic test that we have of whether we're going to take legislation seriously. To the great credit of the maker of this resolution, which we just got, it stipulates right in the first couple of sections, we violated the Constitution on our very first day. The constitutional requirement for oath was violated. And I give you great credit for recognizing that in the resolution. Now you do say that it created nullities, which is, frankly, a way of saying we operated outside this document on the same day we were reading it.”