Political Quotes

“I made a commitment to myself and my colleagues, an unusual one, and that is to come to this debate with my mind still available to persuasion. I am one of the last few holdouts undecided in this debate, and it needs to be said that not once, not once in this entire ordeal, has a single member of my leadership, has a single colleague, has a single member of the Committee on the Judiciary, not only not asked me to vote one way, they have never even inquired as to how I would vote. We have big differences of opinion here, but it does the process an injustice to argue that there has been arm twisting. I think the Whip has been maligned in this process. It has been alleged that he is twisting arms. I spent 3 rac{1}{2} hours in the company of the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Livingston), the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Armey), the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) and the entire elected leadership this week, and not once did any of them say a word to me about impeachment.”