Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Michigan for his leadership, and I likewise thank the chairman for his leadership. The discourse in debate on the floor of the House is not evidencing the unity, the unanimity that members of the House Judiciary Committee and, I venture to say, of this body have with respect to innovation and competition and the idea of protecting our small inventors. And so I would offer myself and many others as a champion for this concept that we are greatest when we are protecting and coddling and growing the inventive mind of America and our small inventors. The Innovation Act has a wonderful name, and I congratulate Chairman Goodlatte for his interest and commitment to this process. We have always worked in a collaborative and bipartisan manner on the Judiciary Committee as it relates to intellectual property and competition. Today, however, our disagreement, if you will, is not on the underlying concept but on a very crucial process that is not in keeping with the mind-set of the Founding Fathers. I imagine that patent law got intimately engaged in the constitutional process because of a young man by the name of Benjamin Franklin, an inventor. He foresaw a great America and the need to be able to encourage those in garages and maybe by candlelight looking to change the landscape of the lives of those who live in that country and now have lived and do live in the greatest Nation in the world. And so the question is, on H.R.…”