Political Quotes

“I feel more strongly about this issue than any vote I have cast since I have been in this body. I want to thank all of the groups. I wish I can mention all of the names, but I want to thank the Family Research Council, I want to thank the Catholic bishops and the Catholic conference, I want to thank the Christian Coalition, and I want to thank the AFL-CIO for coming together and making this point. I will tell them we have won this debate, we have won it outside of this Chamber, and next year we will win it inside of this Chamber. The American people are with us. The Congress may not be with us, but the people are with us. Why should we support the Solomon resolution? The administration's policy is fundamentally failed. It is not true to American values. I will tell my colleagues it is amoral, and I personally believe that it is immoral. Why? The Catholic priests and bishops that are in jail, some for saying holy communion. The next time my colleagues approach the rail and when the pastor or the priest says we break the bread of the body of Christ, he remembers us and the wine for the blood of the Christ, think of the bishops and the priests that are in jail for doing this, for this very, very thing. There are Protestant pastors that are in jail. None of my colleagues go to house churches when they go there, none of my colleagues visit the prisons. The gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Smith] and I were in Beijing Prison No. 1. We met with the underground church.…”