The American people are now and for some time have been asking to be allowed a good night's sleep, they're asking for an end to this nightmare. It is a legitimate request.

Dale Bumpers

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Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?

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When you hear somebody say, 'This is not about sex' - it's about... by Dale Bumpers

When you hear somebody say, 'This is not about sex' - it's about sex.

There's a total lack of proportionality, a total lack of balance in this thing. The charge and the punishment are totally out of sync.

The The House managers have said shame and embarrassment is no excuse for lying. Well, the question about lying, that's your decision. But I can tell you, you put yourself in President Clinton position, and you've already had this big moral lapse, as to what you would do. We are -- none of us are perfect. Sure, you say, President Clinton should have thought of all that beforehand. And indeed President Clinton should. Just as Adam and Eve should have. Just as you and you and you and you, and millions of other people who have been caught in similar circumstances should have thought of it before. And I say none of us are perfect.

It’s wanting to win too badly. by Dale Bumpers

It’s wanting to win too badly.

Nobody has suggested that President Clinton committed a political crime against the state. So, colleagues, if you honor the Constitution, you must look at the history of the Constitution and how we got to the impeachment clause. And if you do that and you do that honestly according to the oath you took, you can not. You can censure President Clinton. You can hand President Clinton over to the prosecutor for President Clinton to be prosecuted, But you can not convict President Clinton. And you can not indulge yourselves the luxury or the right to ignore this history.

The American people are now and for some time have been asking to be allowed a good night's sleep. The American people're asking for an end to this nightmare. It is a legitimate request.

He was a man of policy and honor and not politics, a lot of the stances he took were not politically expedient or popular back home, but they were the right positions to take.