Political Quotes

“I was in rural Alabama, in my home district, about close to exactly a year ago now. It was mid-June of 2003. And I had the honor of being the commencement Speaker at Judson College in Perry County, Alabama. I remember a woman walked up to me after I had done the commencement speech, and she had tears in her eyes. She said, ``Mr. Davis, I have a husband who is in Iraq right now as a member of the Alabama National Guard, and our daughter did graduate today. My husband, her father, could not be here because he is serving our country.'' And then she went on to say, and she said it brokenly, in the midst of her tears, she went on to say, ``Every morning I get up and I turn my television on CNN and I see the little crawler at the bottom of the screen, two Americans killed, three Americans killed.'' And she said, ``Every morning, when I see that, something just jumps up from my stomach to my throat, and I remember that they always notify the next of kin before they make a release of the names.”