Political Quotes

“we all agree that terrorists should be brought to justice. But what kind of justice? The American jurisprudence system is the envy of the free world with its emphasis on due process. Yet the recent executive order substitutes our American justice system for military tribunals, where officers sit as judge and jury with secret evidence, secret witnesses, secret verdicts, and even secretly handed-down death sentences. This order is not reflective of the workings of the great solons of the law whose likenesses ring this Chamber. This is not reflective of Jeffersonian democracy. This is Kafka's trial writ large. We cannot, we should not let the actions of terrorists cause us to reject our American system of justice. The ultimate terror in a democracy is the destruction of constitutional principles. Let us defend against terrorism, and may we always remain one Nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”