Political Quotes

“I welcome my colleague from Missouri, the Honorable William Emerson, who represents the Eighth Congressional District of Missouri today as I address the House of Representatives and the Speaker to call their attention to the historical moment that today represents in parliamentary history in the United States. Bill Emerson and I some 40 years ago today were both present on the House floor as congressional pages when the independent movement of Puerto Rican terrorists entered the gallery up here on my extreme left and stood and unfurled an independent flag of Puerto Rico and started to openly fire on the individuals that were occupying the floor of the House of Representatives, striking five of those Members, several of them seriously, and causing the first historically recordation of a democratic parliamentary body having been fired upon in the entire world. That of course occurred sometime in the afternoon of March 1, 1954, when Bill and I were young men.”