Political Quotes

“I am going to try to be brief and speak in support of the Norton amendment on this. The amount of money involved here is minuscule. There is no savings to the taxpayer. We are talking about the Corporation Counsel or some other District entity having the right to coordinate a lawsuit, to touch it up, to go through briefs that is being done by a pro bono law firm. So the money involved here is nothing. Let us get this straight. We go to Hong Kong, we go to China, we stand in the face of Jiang Zemin and we look at him and say you are diminishing Democratic rights in Hong Kong because you are not letting all of the participants participate and we do not like the way they have structured the electorate. But here in Washington, we do not give our Nation's capital the right to vote in the Senate or in the House of Representatives. Now, the Congress treats the District of Columbia differently than other entities. There are long, historical reasons for this.”