Political Quotes

“I thank both gentlemen. I want to applaud the remarks of my colleague Mr. McCaul, both the remarks that he made here today and the remarks that he made on the afternoon of this tragedy, under what I know was a very stressful situation. {time} 1345 I believe that we share a common purpose here. No one was looking to see which party, a member of the IRS was that day, or what part of the City of Austin. It affected our entire community. I had not used the term earlier, but I must say I also agree with his conclusion that like the much larger-scale tragedy in Oklahoma City, this was an act of domestic terrorism. But let's not quibble over the terms; it was the harm that was done and the promotion of that harm and violence. There is nothing noble about terror. Any expression to the contrary deserves our condemnation. As I read the statement that the pilot put up on his website, which was a rather confusing diatribe, I noticed particularly his quotation, ``violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer,'' and in response almost immediately, some folks set up a Facebook page and called themselves ``fans'' of this suicide attacker. Sporting a ``Don't Tread on Me'' flag, the so-called ``fan page'' to the murderer misappropriated Thomas Jefferson's famous words that ``the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.'' This resolution soundly rejects, in a bipartisan manner, such appalling tributes.…”