Political Quotes

“let me explain why I have done this. I remember when I first came to the Senate, I think within the first year or so I was here, I introduced legislation saying that I wished all laws would be applied to Members of Congress that apply to everybody else. The Senator from Ohio [Mr. Glenn] has been doing the same for years, and Senator Grassley from Iowa has been doing the same for years. I think we have joined as cosponsors of each other's legislation. But I remember giving an eloquent speech--as I thought anyway--as a young Member of the Senate, on a Friday as I recall, about why we should apply all the same laws to Members of Congress. As I was leaving, one of the older Members of the Senate, a very senior Member of the Senate, said, ``Where are you going?'' I said I was heading to the airport to catch a plane back to Vermont. His response was, ``Good. Stay there.'' The legislation was not greeted with enormous enthusiasm.”