Political Quotes

“Madam President, I thank Senator Sanders and both my colleagues very much for their cosponsorship of this amendment and their advocacy of it. I would hope we could find support for this from the other side of the aisle. I do not see this as an exclusively Democratic issue. If you look at the arguments that have been made by all of us on the floor just now for it--Senator Sanders spoke eloquently about the Judeo-Christian tradition that informs so much of our civilization and its horror of exaggerated exorbitant interest rates--for those of our colleagues who are attuned to those traditions, who take their religious principles seriously, they only have to harken back to sources of our Judeo- Christian tradition to find these kinds of limits are good and historic. For those of us who are constitutional scholars and historians and are familiar with the doctrine of federalism and the role of the States in protecting their local citizens, the notion of States rights is one that has frankly been championed by colleagues on the other side of the aisle. Here is an opportunity to express their fealty to that doctrine and to that principle of States rights. To those who think that 202 years of successful tradition of local regulation of interest rates has value, we can document that this is a recent anomaly. This is a peculiarity we are correcting. The great sweep of American history, over more than two centuries, is that the States protected their citizens properly and well.…”