Political Quotes

“as we begin contemplating the debate on the crime bill in the House, the American public should know that during the trial of the World Trade Center killers, those terrorists who killed six people, terrorized thousands, injured hundreds, and brought chaos to the city of New York and the surrounding area, that throughout that trial there was not one word spoken about the possibility of inflicting the death penalty on these intentional killings that were perpetrated by these terrorists. Why is that? Have you ever asked yourself? Well, No. 1, the State of New York has no death penalty even though the legislature has tried from time to time to do so. The Governor of that State has vetoed it every single time. Under Federal jurisdiction we have no Federal law to cover that kind of activity. Although we have been struggling for a generation to put back into the law the death penalty for those kinds of acts, we have been beaten down every single time by the liberal portions of this Congress. We intend to try again this time.”