Political Quotes

“If I can pick up from the Senator from Oregon, the reason, for thousands of years, that religious leaders and philosophers have condemned usury, which is what we are talking about today, is that it is basically immoral, according to every major religion on Earth, to tell a desperate person who is in need of a loan that I am going to give you this loan but I am going to charge a very high interest rate. That is condemned by every major religion on Earth as well as every great writer I can think of who addressed that issue. What I wish to do, I suggest to my friend from Rhode Island, is I want for a moment to read some of the e-mails I received from Vermont dealing with this issue we are attempting to address. You are dealing with it one way. I am trying to deal with it more on a national way. But we both, together, are trying to address this. Let me give a couple of e-mails that came to me over the last couple of months.”