Political Quotes

“I come to the floor this morning to join my colleague from the Pacific Northwest speaking in opposition to the nomination of our colleague to the position of U.S. Attorney General. I thank the Senator from Oregon. I know he has been here for several hours. I listened to much of his remarks, and many of the issues he brought up in his statement reflect the issues that we in the Pacific Northwest are dealing with--the population of the Pacific Northwest concerns--and how many people in our part of the country have moved forward on so many important issues of equal protection for all Americans under the law. So I thank my colleague for being here. I thank him for the many things he had to say this evening on this subject. I hearken back in my own life, as I reflect on this decision, to the time I grew up. This is something that has been instilled in me as a young person growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. I saw the most incredible events happen in our Nation's government, and I saw a position--both the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General, someone who is now a Pacific Northwest resident--use that office, the power of the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, to say they disagreed with the President of the United States. Not only did they disagree with the President of the United States, they would rather resign from office than carry out the acts he was asking them to carry out.…”