Political Quotes

“I'm concerned about living with my conscience, and searching for that which is right and that which is true, and I cannot live with the idea of being just a conformist following a path that everybody else follows. And this has happened to us. As I've said in one of my books, so often we live by the philosophy `Everybody's doing it, it must be alright.' we tend to determine what is right and wrong by taking a sort of Gallup poll of the majority opinion, and I don't think this is the way to get at what is right. `Arnold Toynbee talks about the creative minority and I think more and more we must have in our world that creative minority that will take a stand for that which conscience tells them is right, even though it brings about criticism and misunderstanding and even abuse.' That is excerpted from a 1967 interview of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mr. Speaker, I stand here today as a part of a creative minority in Congress who oppose this apparently inevitable resolution granting the President the authority to use force to remove Saddam Hussein from power.”