Political Quotes

“while the world is rocked by war and the spectacle of removing a president, our drama here is not about impeachment, it is what we have done to ourselves. We have managed to squeeze the life out of what is the most important vote we will ever cast, the overturning of a presidential election. Gone is any pretext of fairness or nonpartisanship, rendering us unable to do what a majority of the public and what a majority of this House wants to do, issue a harsh statement of condemnation and censure. In the final death throes of this Congress we have debased our powers, we have frayed our fragile bases for bipartisan cooperation, making the impeachment process just one more pathogen in the medical chest of toxic politics. We will long be judged by our failure to deal fairly, quickly, and decisively with the President's shameful behavior. It is with great sadness that I vote to oppose this flawed, tragic symbol of the continued unraveling of our political process. Mr. Speaker, the experts tell us there are five stages of grief from denial to bargaining then anger, followed by depression, and ultimately, acceptance. Most of us as Americans have been experiencing this sequence of emotions as we react to this tangled national soap opera. For some time now, I like many Americans, have been trapped somewhere between the stages of anger and depression.”