Political Quotes

“I do not think anybody cannot say that this is not a political bill. This is frankly a cynical attempt at the last day before we break for the summer recess to be able to go home and tell the American people, we did something about terrorism. That is what this is all about. That is why the Republican majority is doing this. I just had this bill handed to me. It is 30 pages long. I got it a half an hour ago. I am trying to read it and look at it. As best I can figure out, there are two studies in this bill. The bill tells law enforcement and other officials to do what they are already capable of doing without this legislation. To me this is Congress at its worst. The American people are not stupid. This is not antiterrorism legislation. This is a Republican majority phony legislation. This is just simply saying we did something, when in reality we have done nothing. If we really want to craft a bill, a good bipartisan bill that does something on terrorism, we need to have the input of both Democrats and Republicans. Terrorist acts are not acts against Republicans or acts against Democrats. They are acts against Americans. As Americans, all of us, Democrats, Republicans, independents, we ought to be working together to craft bipartisan legislation.”