Political Quotes

I offer my strongest endorsement to the build and charter provision in this package of reforms. This provision is relatively simple and straightforward. It provides the Secretary of the Navy with authority to enter into long-term charters…

This bill has elicited a great deal of rather passionate and emotional debate. As important as the subject matter is, I think there has been more passion and more emotion than the bill, by its terms, certainly warrants. It is a bill that…

I want to join in the comments just made by my colleague from New York, the distinguished chairman of the Rules Committee. I would only offer in addition to that if you take the record of the Navy's nuclear propulsion system, the standards…

Mr. Chairman, I am in no way unsympathetic with its purposes. I certainly hope that the opposition I will speak is a bipartisan opposition. I certainly do not oppose it, certainly for any partisan reasons; I oppose it because I think it is…