Political Quotes

“tonight I am going to be speaking about the permanent most favored nation status for China. And in the time that follows, I hope to demonstrate to the Members of Congress why this legislation ought to be defeated tomorrow and why this Congress needs to return to the roots of our country, the historic roots which have been the result of people really caring about human rights, caring about the rights of all people. When this country was founded, it was founded by people who felt that, as the Declaration of Independence indicates, it was necessary for people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that we should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. And in that Declaration, which is our heritage, it goes on to say we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”