Political Quotes

“as you and we can all see, the cherry blossoms are popping out along the Potomac River and around the Capitol and are approaching peak bloom. We all know what comes next; we get a lot of visitors who come to the Nation's Capital at this wonderful time of year to see the cherry blossoms. They come during spring break, and it is good to see friends from back home come to the Nation's Capital to visit and learn more about how our government functions or sometimes how it doesn't function as well as we would like. Families taking a vacation, as well as elementary, middle, and high school groups, are learning about civics, which is a good thing. More of our kids need to know how our government works because they are going to be the leaders of tomorrow. So I am glad the Senate is still debating a very important piece of legislation called the SAVE America Act because it really goes to the very foundation of self-government. All it says is that in order to be an American citizen--excuse me, in order to vote, you need to be an American citizen, and in order to cast a ballot, you have to produce a voter ID. So it makes you wonder, with the polling showing that 70 to 80 percent of people polled--Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike--support both of those provisions, why is it that our Democratic colleagues oppose it? Surely, it can't be because they want people other than American citizens to vote or they want to make it easier to cheat.…”