Political Quotes

“since El Paso is New Mexico's immediate neighbor, and because a significant portion of their newspaper's circulation is in my State, I chose to go to an editorial board meeting in El Paso to talk about this issue. They have two outside editorial board people and they were there. We talked for an hour. There was cynicism by one. In fact one said why should we expect people who are Members of Congress to have anything significant to say about this? My response was, as best I could: Well, if we are really waiting around for leaders--locally, county, State, national--who are without blame for anything that has happened in the country, who have always been absolutely beyond reproach, who maybe have not done all they should about character development in the country, then I think we will have to wait around for the second coming. Because there will be no one around. My answer must have worked, because a full editorial page was devoted to the subject, ``Going Beyond the Three R's.'' I have made that a part of the Record. Madam President, I want to close by suggesting that I am not here to overstate our case as elected political leaders of the country; nor to understate it. Nor to indicate that the development of something like this, perhaps a sea of change in the country with reference to this--I am not suggesting this Senator or any I know are going to be the cause of making that work.…”