Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, guidance. I think Ronald Reagan--and I will paraphrase--said the scariest phrase in the American language is, ``I am from the government and I am here to help.'' The last thing I want is more guidance from the Federal Government. Mr. Chairman, you can bark like a dog, but I am not going to call you Fido. I am going to call you Mr. Chairman. That is what this is about. This is about infringement of speech. This is about the Federal Government trying to compel employees to buy into the fantasies of other employees, and that is not the role of government. Bark like a dog if you want, but you are still Mr. Chairman. Writing for the majority in the West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, Justice Robert Jackson affirmed this basic idea. He wrote, ``No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.'' Forcing employees to call people by their preferred pronouns compels those employees to affirm that it is possible for a person to change his or her gender, to buy into this fantasy even if it does contradict science and/or their faith. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chair, again, basic human decency. Let's embrace people wherever they are, whoever they are.…”