Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady for her kindness. If any Member, any Governor had to go to the polls and work to bring people to the polls to vote in an election in a democratic process and in that election they had to count the people who were home, asleep in their beds, some who did not desire to vote--that was their democratic choice, although we want everyone to vote--most people would say that is absurd, including my friends on the other side of the aisle. Why did this have to be the scourge in this particular legislation? Let me also say that, as the ranking member on the Transportation Security Committee and as formerly the chairperson, I believe in working together. We had a pilot program dealing with privatization in some small airports of the Transportation Security Administration. But the gentlelady is from New York. And if I recall, we were privatized on that fateful date of 9/11. The idea is to make our TSOs at a level that is responsible across the Nation. And we had language in this bill that said that we may look at other requests or make decisions on other requests for using privatization. No, they go and change the language. Now, ``the Secretary shall.'' She has to. And there is no credible evidence that suggests that the privatization of TSOs or the Transportation Security Administration is going to make our Nation safer.…”