Political Quotes

“I think a national civics lesson is in order here. First of all, as a former mayor of the city of Cleveland, I think that I understand what all mayors understand, and that is that people in our cities pay taxes to city, State, and to the Nation. So people in cities across this country give their tax dollars to the Federal Government. They are Federal taxpayers. That does not give them any less rights, it actually gives them more rights. It gives them something to say at all levels. I am very concerned, as a former mayor and as a former city councilman, that the Riggs amendment would usurp the right of a local community, and by reference, all local communities, to make their own laws. The principle of home rule is something that every one of us in the Congress of the United States ought to support.”