"We have heard very moving accounts of people close to Terri that she is, indeed, very much alive."

"We have heard very moving accounts of people close to Terri that she is, indeed, very much alive."
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.
On brain-damaged woman Terri Schiavo.
"If you don't want a decision to be made politically, why in the world do you ask 535 politicians to make it? Does anyone think that this decision will be made without consideration of electoral support or party or ideology? Of course not."
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
Before the vote on a bill allowing Terri Schiavo's parents to plea for their daughter's life in the federal courts. Many lawmakers claimed political motives drove Republicans to pursue the legislation.
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