Political Quotes

“I had prepared over several days a speech for this morning. But because of a news article this morning on the death of Senator Fulbright the day before yesterday, I decided to change my approach and have thrown away all of the comments I was going to make. I will try to put this debate in a different light. The Washington Post article on Senator Fulbright is well worth reading, because he was a figure of great consequence here. As we are debating this, another matter of great consequence, I look back at some of the other events that have taken place in my career on this Senate floor. I will not use Yogi Berra's famous expression, ``It's deja vu all over again,'' because I think a more apt expression might be Justice Holmes' comment about the law, but it really relates to all of us. He said, ``The life of the law has not been logic. It has been experience.'' I think, as we look at this balanced budget amendment, we are better off to look at it in the light of experience rather than the light of logic.”