Political Quotes

“if it were permissible under the rules of this House, I would call upon the Vice President to apologize to the American people for making the following outrageous statement. Yesterday he said, ``It is absolutely essential that 8 weeks from today on November 2 we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice, the danger is we will get hit again.'' Does the Vice President not understand that we have parents with sons and daughters fighting in Iraq who are members of the Democratic Party and who support Senator Kerry for President? Does he not understand that at this very moment and at the moment he spoke, there were Democratic soldiers in Iraq fighting for his freedom, as well as the freedom of all of us? It is shameful, shameful, that the Vice President would interject such a divisive bit of rhetoric into the public discourse in this country. Has he no shame?”