Political Quotes

“I am a cosponsor of this legislation with Senator Hollings and am proud to be. I enjoy the company I am in. I am pleased to be following his leadership. I think he has tried mightily and successfully to keep this legislation focused on its primary purpose. It is so easy when legislation comes up to toss this, that, and other extraneous things at it as though somehow we are going to come out with a better law that way. The fact is that in most of these instances it simply goes nowhere. The distinguished chairman has tried to keep together a piece of legislation that reflects not only the needs of today, but into the next century. As one who has children who will live most of their lives in the next century, I applaud the chairman for that. I applaud his leadership. I applaud him for his farsightedness, and I hope that we will resist the siren call of just adding on other things that will simply slow down and probably kill the legislation in the long run. Sometimes it is the death of legislation by good intentions more than anything else. Let us keep our eye on the ball.”