Political Quotes

“I say to the Senator, I full well know, having had the privilege of working with you throughout much of our public service careers, your strong feeling about States rights. And I have mine also. But I have to tell the Senator, the facts do not bear out the assumption that that individual driving without the seatbelt is of minimal danger to an innocent person, be it a pedestrian or one in another car, for this reason: It is very clear that if an accident occurs with an individual driving under the restraint of a seatbelt, he or she has, in that split fraction of a second, better control over the car than one who is totally jostled out of the driver's position and loses the ability to operate the controls of the car because of the absence of a restraint to keep that individual in the position of the driver. Now, the record is replete with those facts. Secondly, yes, you think the people of Virginia--and we love them dearly and they will be on your side, not on mine; they will be on your side--should make the decision. But, tragically, for children, 6 out of 10 die who do not have the seatbelt put on them. By the driver putting on his or her seatbelt, there is more of an inclination, then, to do the same with the other passengers in the car. The death on our highways today cuts into the young people, the younger generation coming along behind us far more deeply than our age group.”