Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. I voted from conviction, not out determination or fear, but because of the feeling deep in my heart that this was the right thing to do.
– President George Herbert Walker Bush quoting Edmund Burke while addressing a hostile audience of 400 at Houston’s Memorial High School, defending his vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1968
