Political Quotes

“I rise to oppose what I think is a well intentioned but misguided effort here to amend the first amendment, the Bill of Rights. Every nation on Earth that I know of has a flag. There is only one that has a bill of rights and that is us. And that is the difference here. Every repressive regime I know of throughout history has tried in some form or another to repress the destruction of whatever they have consider symbolic. Again, every nation on Earth has a flag. There is only one that has a bill of rights, and that is us. We are talking about the first amendment. For Congress to knowingly give to the government the power to prescribe what is permissible protest when that protest does not affect any other freedoms, nor does it physically harm anybody else, but yet give to the government the right to prescribe limits on that I think is wrong. And I just say this, once we breach the Bill of Rights, they then become relevant. Up until now they are not. We breach those, they become relevant, believe you me it will not be long before there will be some on this floor talking about the second amendment and why we need to change that. So I want all the conservative thinkers in this body and around the country to think about what we are doing. As a symbol, we are going over ground that has not been plowed. Every nation has a flag only. One has a bill of rights, and that is why I think this is a misdirected effort.”