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"Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers."
"What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be."
"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can."
"I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am."
"I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman."
"There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president."
"You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think."
"We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques."
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"So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week."
"You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy."
"So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington."
"Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee."
"First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties."
"From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business."
"To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin."
"Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions."
"The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern."
"The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized."
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