Political Quotes

“I come to talk today about getting back to the basics. This place has, in fact, been broken, and a number of the rules that we worked on were to bring authority back and bring us back to the principles of Jefferson's parliamentary practice and procedure, his manual on that. I would say to the ladies and gentlemen that we should look at that document for what its principles stand for. What it stands for is--and it says right in the preamble, Jefferson writes: ``For some of the most familiar and experienced members,''--referencing they are members of parliament because that is what he based it on--``that nothing tended more to throw power into the hands of administration, and those who acted with the majority of the House of Commons, than a neglect of, or departure from, the rules of proceeding; that these forms, as instituted by our ancestors, operated as a check and control on the actions of the majority, and that they were, in many instances, a shelter and protection to the minority against the attempts of power.'' So when I go out there, Mr.…”