It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber. (Washington, D.C., April 10, 2002)
Congress Quotes
“Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?” someone asked. “No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.”
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress, you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
I haven’t had a chance to talk, but I’m confident we’ll get a bill that I can live with if we don’t… Can’t living with the bill means it won’t become law. (referring to the McCain-Kennedy patients’ bill of rights, June 13, 2001)
A Congressman has got two ends A sitting and a thinking end And since his whole success depends Upon his seat… why bother, friend?
I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes anyone to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.
Two generations ago, Gladstone called the Senate of the United States “that remarkable body, the most remarkable of all inventions of modern politics.”
I am now here in Congress… I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me, or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure.
Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.
We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.
