Political Quotes

“I rise to really cut through a lot of the emotion and a lot of the rhetoric and really bring together how I view this particular issue. And really I will take very few minutes because, to me, it becomes very clear once the facts are put on the table. I speak as a U.S. Senator, as someone who understands an obligation to his fellow man, as being a trustee in the U.S. Senate to the American people; but I also want to speak as a physician, one who has spent his entire adult life in the practice of medicine, reaching out to people, being trained at hospitals across this country, exposed to accepted therapeutic procedures, understanding what peer review is about, and to let you know how I assess where we are today. It really comes down to a single statement, which is as follows: Partial-birth abortion should never--should never--be performed, because it is needlessly risky to the woman, because it is an unnecessary procedure, because it is inhumane to the fetus, and because it is medically unacceptable and offends the very basic civil sensibilities of people all across this country.”