Political Quotes

“ladies and gentlemen, we can talk about this rule as not being fair, but there were 107 amendments that were not made in order. Five of them were bipartisan, 53 of them were Democrats, and 49 of them were Republican amendments. This is a very fair rule and it deals with what the American people want to deal with--the crime issue. Mr. Speaker, the example that the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Gingrich] gave, my amendment will take care of that, because what it says is that you see these people that are on death row for years and years and years and years, and their sentence is never carried out. My amendment says: One year, they have one petition, and it must be done by a capable attorney. ``Three strikes and you're out.'' Three violent crimes and the criminal is in there for the rest of his life. I cannot understand what is going on in this country. I see these people standing up here talking about crime. Yet they are not willing to do away with assault weapons. They are not willing to do away with those guns that are used to mow down people, those guns that are killing people in this country. Every day I hear people stand up and talk about crime. They are concerned about crime, but they are not willing to go for a 5-day waiting period to have a handgun. I hear people stand up here and say they are concerned about crime, but they are not willing to fight the lobbies who are for guns in this country and are fueling many of the campaigns in this country.”