Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this week, the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives began hearings to look into Planned Parenthood's harvesting and trafficking of human body parts, which was revealed in a series of undercover videos last year. These were videos that even Democrat Presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, in her words, ``obviously found disturbing.'' Since the release of the videos last year, some have rushed to defend the organization, and Planned Parenthood and its allies have been in full damage control mode. Among the more bizarre defenses has been that the videos were heavily edited, as if the statements made by Planned Parenthood officials and a worker who harvested body parts really aren't what they appear to be. I do not serve on this select committee, but if I did, I would really want to take a hard look at that defense. The term ``heavily edited'' suggests that important, qualifying context may have been omitted in these videos; but I struggle, Mr. Speaker, with trying to understand any context that would soften the language in these tapes. For example, in what context is this okay? ``We have been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I am not going to crush that part.'' What about: ``A lot of people want intact hearts these days,'' or ``always as many intact livers as possible''?…”