Political Quotes

“That is a justified objection, Mr. President. But I am convinced that we have an opportunity, if we go along the road that the Senator from New Mexico has set out for us, to retain what is good and what is important in the Legal Services Corporation and prevent the excesses to which many of our citizens have been subjected in the past and about which we have heard. If it turns out that these requirements, that these limitations do not work, that these injustices continue, well, we are dealing with only a 1-year appropriations bill. We can deal with those objections at a another time relatively soon in the future. So it is for that reason, Mr. President--that we can retain what is appropriate about the Legal Services Corporation, and we can at least begin, and perhaps succeed, in reining in the excesses of that corporation--that I support the position outlined so well by the Senator from New Mexico and ask that we accept his amendment.”