Howard Metzenbaum: “I have been around here a long time. I understand when you lose a vote, tabling 65 to 35, it is pretty hard to defeat it…”

“I have been around here a long time. I understand when you lose a vote, tabling 65 to 35, it is pretty hard to defeat it the second time around. You may even lose some of those. But I just feel so strongly, so deeply about this whole question of farm workers. I do not know farm workers. I am a city boy. I do not know much about farms. I know more about what is happening in the communities of Cleveland, Columbus, Youngstown--some of the other cities of Ohio. I have a relationship with the farm workers of Ohio, some of the farmers of Ohio. I would not be here if I did not have a good relationship with them. After my original remarks, I just got a call from the Ohio Farmers Union saying: We are totally supportive of what your position is on this. I say to all of you, you all go out and campaign, talk about your concern for the American people, indicate you are here because you want to make America a better place in which to live. I would say, of the 100 Members of this body, myself excluded--they are all sterling men and women. Overwhelmingly churchgoing people, some temple-going people--whatever the religious preference. But in the main, God-fearing people concerned about their fellow human beings on Sunday, or on Saturday, as the case may be. But this is only Wednesday. And this is the day when push comes to shove, when we really ought to be concerned about our fellow human beings--not what we say in our prayers, but what we do here on the floor of the Senate.”