Matt Salmon: “Mo Udall used to call himself the one-eyed Mormon Democrat, and I guess I would be the wide-eyed Mormon Republican. I…”

“Mo Udall used to call himself the one-eyed Mormon Democrat, and I guess I would be the wide-eyed Mormon Republican. I think that is one of the things that we had in common. Let me first of all say that Mo Udall came from good stock. It is no surprise that Mo Udall always won his elections with a very, very large margin. But then Mo Udall was related to over half of Arizona, so I do not think he really ever had too much of a challenge. In fact, I think if I tried to one-up the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe), I would change that resolution and say, why should we stop there, let us just change the name of Arizona to Udall Country and we will all be Udallians. That would probably be a better suggestion. Then I got to thinking about it. A few months ago I made probably an avant-garde proposal to put Ronald Reagan's face on Mt. Rushmore. Maybe I should swap that and put Mo Udall's face on Mt. Rushmore. I think a lot of people would probably get behind that right here and now, because Mo Udall was the kind of guy that inspired us to become better. I look at the things we go through in life. Sometimes they are hard to bear. This last year it has not been a pleasant time being in the Congress. We have been through some very, very tough times. America has been through some very, very tough times. And I thought to myself over and over during the process, 'Where are you, Mo Udall? I wish you were here right now.'”