Political Quotes

“I pay tribute to my friend, the Senator from Utah, President pro tempore of the Senate, who is retiring after 41 years of service. Senator Hatch is known as a Senator's Senator. He has had more legislation signed into law than any other living Member of this body, and he has chaired the Finance, Judiciary, and Labor and Human Resources Committees with great distinction. Today we call that Labor and Human Resources Committee the HELP Committee. We all recall the friendship Mr. Hatch had with the late Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Kennedy. This relationship was responsible for some of the most impactful legislation of our time. The State Children's Health Insurance Program, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Ryan White Act, to name a few, and when Senator Kennedy suffered from life's difficulties, Senator Hatch was there to support him as a friend. On June 28, 2017, Senator Hatch published a very important column in TIME Magazine, entitled, ``I am recommitting myself to civility.'' Written in the wake of the attempted massacre of colleagues who were practicing for the annual congressional softball game, a racially motivated stabbing in Portland, and dueling political rallies in Berkeley that turned violent, Senator Hatch observed, ``Civility is the indispensable political norm.'' I would like to quote a few sentences from Mr. Hatch's column because they bear repeating, now more than ever.…”