Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I have had it. I have really had it. Why do you see people go to the gallery, screaming at the top of their lungs, something I do not encourage now and did not encourage then, it has a lot to do with what we have just heard. A mayor of the District of Columbia who has credibility with every Member of this body has indicated in writing and publicly on television that he will pocket veto a bill, and the reason he is going to pocket veto the bill is because if he just vetoed it in the face of the council, then it would be hard of him to bring the Catholic Church, and he is a Catholic, together with his council. He has indicated publicly, this mayor, who has all the credibility in the world, that he is going to do what this chairman has asked him to do. The mayor has asked me to accept the language this chairman has written and this chairman has just gotten up and said that that is not enough. We, in the District, are damned if we do and we are damned if we try to do what we say do. A pocket veto from a mayor who is trying to do what you say do should be all you need when he has accepted the language that we asked him to accept and when he is working with his own Catholic Church, and they have agreed to work with him and they have agreed not to come here to ask us to do another thing, we ought to declare victory and go home.”