Jerry Nadler: “let me just say that I have a tremendous admiration for the gentleman from New York (Mr. Forbes). I think one thing in…”

“let me just say that I have a tremendous admiration for the gentleman from New York (Mr. Forbes). I think one thing in particular deserves comment. We have on fairly rare occasions in this House seen people across the aisle walk from one side of the aisle to the other. People have done it for all sorts of motives. And I am not going to comment on the motives of anybody, except to say that I am not sure if the history of this body ever records someone going from the majority to the minority party and from the situation of a safe reelection to guarantee a difficult reelection and a situation in which one can ascribe no conceivable political motive other than conviction of principle. And for that, I think that whatever one thinks of either of the parties, one must admire greatly the very deliberate undertaking of political risk for no reason other than matters of principle.”