Political Quotes

“Maybe I wasn't listening as attentively as I should have been. Maybe I heard it incorrectly. I am happy to review what the Senator read. I apologize if I got that wrong. In either case, I wanted to clarify we are not talking about cases where there are not abortions being performed. With respect to the statement that we should not be making these decisions, with all due respect, we make decisions here about everything under the sun--things that 50 years ago who would have thought we would be debating. To suggest we don't have the technical expertise to determine what is a brutal, gory, horrendous procedure and ban it--we make illegal in this country lots of things we find to be morally objectionable and offensive. I think we have every right--in fact, we have a duty to speak on this. To suggest we in the Congress don't have the right to make these decisions, that we have to give it up to the courts--unelected people, just give it up to them; I don't need to be ruled by a bunch of judges. People elected me and the Senator from Michigan and everybody else in this Chamber to go forward and to make decisions about issues of importance to the people of our States. That is what we are going to do.”