Political Quotes

“what the gentlewoman from New York is saying is that if the price of peanuts goes over $245, that the program disappears. Well, who is going to tell the Department of Agriculture what peanuts sell for when they do not monitor that, if they are not within the program? In other words, the gentlewoman has come up with something that will not work. Will Rogers used to say, ``It ain't what people do not know that bothers me; it is what they think they know that is just dead, damn wrong that bothers me.'' The gentlewoman from New York and her colleagues all have wandered into that area here rather beautifully. There is no way the Department of Agriculture can go out and see every peanut farmers in America and say, ``Did you sell your peanuts for more than $654 a ton? If so, we want you to sign a paper.'' How you are going to monitor this monster that you all have created? I beg to offer to you that it will not work, and I urge my colleagues to vote against it.”