Political Quotes

“What I am saying is an hour ago we had a motion to recommit that did this. The gentleman could have joined with us on that motion to recommit, any number of my Republican colleagues could have if they had wanted to do something now. This resolution is fine, but it ought to be a special order instead of coming into the legislative process. We have a bill, 4770, that will do this very thing. And so I understand that the gentleman is not on the committee, but what goes on from here is nothing except, well, we are going to do something later. Another promise. Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I think this is kind of a fitting ending to this day. My colleague, the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Tanner), says he cannot understand what this is. Well, let me give my colleagues my interpretation. This is press release time. The Washington Post called this the Pretend Congress, and this is a piece of activity we are going to go through here that pretends to do something. Now, there was a cartoonist by the name of Walt Kelly who created Pogo. And one of his most famous cartoons is one in which they are searching for who is doing some bad deed, and finally Pogo gets up and says, ``We have found the enemy, and they is us.'' Well, the fact is that it is the Congress that created the problems.”