Political Quotes

“40 or 50 years, I would tell the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay), indeed, 200 years and plus, because some of us think that just maybe our Founding Fathers, Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison and all those that played a role in our Bill of Rights, may have known just slightly more than the greats of today such as the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay), Mr. Gingrich, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Armey), and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hastert). Perhaps they understood the role, the important and vital role that religion would play in our society, and they would also recognize that we do not need government interfering with it. We do not need government funding it. Indeed, that is why hundreds of religious leaders, who are doing innovative work--enriching and changing lives across this country, have opposed this bill. Because they are doing their good deeds, they are living their faith and their religion, and they do not even need the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hastert) to come in and pass a bill to let them do it. Today is a referendum on discrimination. We will have a vote today on which the Members of this House will have an opportunity to say whether they want to spend Federal tax dollars to encourage discrimination in employment or not.”