Political Quotes

“First, I want to thank Chris Smith for his leadership over the years. He is one of the people, along with Henry Hyde, that I admired from afar, and when I was elected 18 years ago, I told him I want to come and hold up his arms in this fight for life. He has been a real champion and just a terrific leader here in the Congress. I want to thank him for that. I heard in a congressional life forum a few years ago a lady by the name of Frederica Mathewes-Green--she was president of the Feminists for Life--and she said something I will never forget. She said: Abortion is the most violent form of death known to mankind. It is death by dismemberment, decapitation, and poisoning. She said: Abortion breaks a mother's heart. She said: There are always two victims in an abortion. One is the baby, and one is the mother; one is dead, one is wounded. I never forgot those statements of this great feminist leader. I think her focus is right. We need to keep that focus where it is, where she had it: on the mother, on the baby. We are talking here about babies who are in their 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th month of pregnancy. For the first 5 months, a woman could have an abortion, but after that, it bans abortion, and I want to say this: I was first elected in 1972, inaugurated 3 weeks before Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, so I have been involved in these battles for the whole time.…”