Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, sometimes art imitates life. Sometimes life imitates art. I think today life is imitating art. I often reflect on motion pictures and learn from them. When I came up here, it was ``Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'' But currently, watching this, I have been thinking about ``Blazing Saddles.'' Remember Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor, they did a movie. They had a city called Rock Ridge, an all-white city, lawless, problems. The governor appointed a handsome, sharp, young, black man to be the sheriff, the first black sheriff ever in Rock Ridge. He went there and he wanted the townsfolk to help him prepare to beat off the thugs and have a better city. They didn't want to join him. He said, ``You'd do it for Randolph Scott.'' They would have done it for Randolph Scott, and realizing that, they helped Cleavon Little, the sheriff. The Republicans, well, they'd do it for George Bush, and they did it for George Bush a lot. Mr. Speaker, life imitates art. ____________________”