Political Quotes

“last week the whole world was horrified by the spectacle of Ambassador Alan Keyes being handcuffed or otherwise restrained and forcibly prevented from entering into a television area for a debate among candidates. I feel personally outraged by that entire incident. I feel the insult that Ambassador Keyes must have felt. I feel the dismay that must have flowed through his veins at that time. Then not only was he prevented from entering into the premises, but then carried off like he himself was a criminal and taken to a remote part of the territory there and dumped off like an unwanted citizen. Double outrage, double affront, as it were, more of an insult. Now, I think that everyone in America has shared that feeling of insult along with Ambassador Keyes, and I suppose many have expressed their regrets. I did and sent a personal note to him expressing my regrets and expressing that I felt with him the range of insults that he must have felt. But I must tell my colleagues that I have even more reason to associate myself with that insult, because I experienced almost exactly the same thing in the year 1966 in my first venture into politics when I myself was blockaded by constables, as it was at that time, from entering into a public political meeting place where I should not have been excluded, but I was. So I, in viewing the Keyes incident, of course had flashes in front of me of what had happened to me many years ago.”