Political Quotes

“for 24 years I was a journalist. I did stories on and about murderers, rapists, drug dealers, politicians that were in trouble, even police officers who had crossed the line. And I was threatened many times, told not to carry a story or threatened if I was to move forward. Never in 24 years was my freedom of speech stifled until last night. And it did not happen in a dark alley, it happened on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Only two Members of the minority side were allowed to speak last night about a very controversial issue, and they were only given 3 minutes. Never in my time in the House have I seen this. 202 Members were told, ``You can't speak, you can't debate.'' In all those years when I was threatened, in all those years when someone tried to stop the debate, the free flow of ideas, I learned one thing about it: that they were afraid of the exposure of that idea. They did not want to have a debate. And when you are afraid of debate, it shows the weakness in your philosophy and a weakness of where you are coming from. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have got to continue pushing for our rights to at least have a debate on these issues, win or lose.”