Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewomen from Hawaii (Mses. Hanabusa and Gabbard). I am privileged to stand on this floor because of them and honor, to me, a great friend. I know that we are saying we are honoring Senator Danny Akaka, or Daniel. I would like to refer him to the higher body as Congressman Akaka. Thirteen years we served together. I have never found a gentleman, as you said before, one that loved and remembers better than he. He worked with me, and I probably knew Danny better than anybody else. I call him Danny because we were friends. I knew him probably better than anybody else because his locker was right next to mine down in the gym. {time} 1315 We would have conversations about Alaska and about Hawaii, and how we worked together with Danny Inouye, Senator Stevens, and myself. It was a marvelous combination. And I believe that Alaskan combination with Hawaii still exists today because of the two congressional ladies. We work together. We have a unique difference from all of the other States. We are not contiguous to the big body of the United States. We are actually scattered far north and far west, but we work together. Although they have a tropical climate and we have a frozen climate, we have the comradeship that is necessary to work together, and we continue to do that. Danny was a soldier, a teacher, and, yes, a great Congressman.…”