“Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.”

—  James Traficant

Said on numerous occasions at the end of speeches in Congress, quoted in Traficant guilty of bribery, racketeering, Law Center, CNN.com, April 12, 2002, 2007-01-31 http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/04/11/traficant.trial/index.html,

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