Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Connecticut. Ms. DeLAURO. President Franklin Roosevelt once said, quoting the poet, Dante: ``Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warmhearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.'' We are not indifferent. We should not be indifferent tonight. Do not let us become frozen. I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, let us pass this emergency supplemental bill because the lives of children are at stake, and we should not play fast and loose with those lives when we have the power to do something, to make a difference, and to protect these children and make sure they get to a safe haven and a safe landing.”