Political Quotes

“my dear friend from Wyoming, we agree on a lot of things; we just happen to see this one different. We disagree. I rise in support of the motion to invoke cloture on a nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to be the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. I do so after giving very, very, very careful consideration to this serious--and I mean serious--allegations that many of our colleagues have leveled against her. If there were any truth--a shred of truth--or evidence to support the charges, I wouldn't be standing here; I couldn't support her. But I have found no such evidence, and I have looked. Now, I have said this: Every one of us, we are entitled to our own opinion here. And we are not bashful to sharing that opinion with others. We are just not entitled to create our own facts to support our opinions. That is it. All I am asking for is look at the facts. That is all. The facts surrounding the spiking of the trees in the Clearwater National Forest in March of 1989 are well known. It is public. They are known because the facts were tried by a jury in a Federal district court in Spokane, WA, in June of 1993. I still believe we all believe the rule of law applies to all of us, and that is who we are. Trial by jury is how we find facts and discover the truth in this country. That is it. It is the keystone in our criminal justice system. A jury heard the evidence in the tree-spiking case.…”