Political Quotes

“I am not sure I am going to attempt to actually answer that, but I will say this, and I respect always the gentleman's opinion: when he says the issue is about counting votes, we cannot count votes unless we have an election, I understand where he is coming from. However, there is an issue about the security of the ballots. Let us take terrorists away from it. There could be an earthquake. It could be in California. It could be in Texas. Do we then stop the national elections? Forget terrorism. Would we stop the national elections if on the day of the elections there was an earthquake somewhere? Would we somehow broadcast to the Nation stop, turn around, and go home? But I think, frankly, understanding what he is saying, respecting what he is saying about security, this still goes way beyond that. At issue tonight is not forgetting about security elections, not forgetting about having accurate elections, but the issue is with the chatter about one person being able to stop elections; the Congress, I think this is the time the Congress is the body that can do that, and this is as a result of the chatter about one person.”