Political Quotes

“one of the things that concerns me is, we have a problem that goes far beyond sunshine at this point, because the corrective surgery that was performed in the House to take care of the bank scandal and the post office scandal and some of these things was, we put a professional House administrator in place that was given certain powers to take over a lot of the institutions of the Congress, in order to get rid of the patronage system, and guess what, the House administrator up and quit the other day. As nearly as we can determine, one of the reasons he quit is because some of the things that the House said were to be assigned to him in order to end patronage were not granted to him. They were kept in the bowels of the power brokers of the Congress. They did not want to give up that power. They did not want the patronage system to be eliminated. The Speaker, when he talked about this grand new reform package that we were having in the House, indicated we were going to end patronage and go to professional employees. If we had only done that. But the fact is the Democrat patronage operation continues to operate. As we stand here they are still filtering people into the House system, and so the Democrats have abandoned all pretense of reform. And the real resolution that we need now, in addition to some sunshine, is some corrective work on the reform that was passed supposedly to take care of these matters.”