Political Quotes

“I have just returned from my district, and in doing so I always have to go through the State of Hawaii. Today, the State of Hawaii is celebrating Kamehameha Day, they call it every year, in honor of the great King of Hawaii, Kamehameha. I want to share with my colleagues some very interesting tributes to this great Polynesian Hawaiian king, whose statue is right here in Statuary Hall as it was a gift from the State of Hawaii commemorating this great island ruler. Kamehameha had to prove not only his kingship by birth, but he also had to prove his kingship by merit. His rivals were just as big as he. I do not know if my colleagues realize, Mr. Speaker, but the statute that we see here of King Kamehameha is supposed to be life size. This great King of Hawaii was almost 7 feet in stature, weighed almost 300 pounds, and can my colleagues just imagine that his rivals were just as big as he, and having a fleet of some 16,000 canoes, and the population of the Hawaiian community at that time was some 300,000 native Hawaiians that lived during his time. Prophesies were made before Kamehameha was even born that he would be truly a king of chiefs, and that is why his name is aptly called, The Lonely One, and I ask my colleagues to go see the statue of King Kamehameha in Statuary Hall.”