Political Quotes

“Members of the House, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. I want to be brutally frank with Barney to start the discussion that I want to place in the Congressional Record, and to the effect that brutally frank as he was, he was incorrect on his assertion that my amendment would not be in order or not be found and no point of order and so forth, because I am not going to yield now, Barney. I am just refuting what you are saying, and then later you can come back on the floor if you want. At this moment I ask you to sit down and listen to me carefully, because I am very intent, as intent as you were during your presentation. In any event, we have learned from the Parliamentarian, the Department of Justice, from the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon], and everybody else interested in this that there is no point of order placeable against the Gekas amendment, and if that was the thrust of what the gentleman from Massachusetts was saying, he was dead wrong.”