Political Quotes

“The gentlelady from Maryland--Connie--thank you very much for yielding to me. It is a wonderful privilege to be back with my colleagues, former Members, here today on the floor of the House of Representatives and especially for me to be able to participate in this award. I had the privilege of serving for 22 years in the House of Representatives representing District 5 and then District 8 in the House of Representatives--Districts 5 and 8 from the State of Arizona. I retired in 2007 and was succeeded by Representative Gabrielle, or as we all know and love her, Gabby Giffords. But my association with Gabby runs back much further than that. When I was in Tucson, even before I became a member of the Arizona State legislature, I knew Gabby Giffords and her family, who were a very prominent business family in Tucson, and she was deeply involved in the community even then as a very young woman. I had the privilege of not serving with her but serving alongside her, serving from here while she was in the Arizona State Legislature, and she had a very distinguished career in the legislature, as she did here, reaching across the aisle, accomplishing legislation because she was able to talk to people and compromise and reach those kinds of decisions that needed to be made. She has been involved for years with the education of young people in our community. She is loved by virtually everybody in Arizona and certainly in Tucson.…”