Political Quotes

“I am not surprised. The administrative law judges have been appalled by the long waits for disability, and then a $20,000 check finally comes out. In the southern district of New York, at one point, I tell my friend Senator Packwood, who is a proud graduate of New York University, when Rudolph Guiliani was the U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York, he ceased to defend the U.S. Government in disability payments. He would not do it. He thought it was indefensible. When a U.S. attorney says, ``I will not defend the Government in court,'' that indicates something. Well, there is a problem of executive energy, autonomy, and a sense that this is our problem; we have to do it. I think the Senator from Maine has done a service to us. I have to say to him, in the candor that we share on the floor, that the House will have a view on this, and I hope it is a positive one. They have a structure which is more complicated than ours. But for my part, I am happy to accept it.”