Political Quotes

“I am so proud of this letter we wrote together. In the letter, we said: The most important thing is to nominate an exceptionally well-qualified, intelligent person to replace Justice Souter. . . . Women make up more than half of our population, but right now hold only one seat out of nine. . . . This is out of balance. In order for the Court to be relevant, it needs to be diverse and better reflect America. Then, of course, the President nominated Sonia Sotomayor and we were very excited about that. So it was wonderful to work with her on that, and we worked together on respecting human rights in Tibet and led 27 Senators in a letter to Chinese leader Hu Jintao asking that Tibetans be respected. Regarding women in Afghanistan, we worked together to ask Afghan leaders to revise a law that would legalize marital rape and impose other Taliban restrictions on Shiite women in Afghanistan. This is just a partial list of issues I have worked on with Olympia Snowe, and I will do a longer tribute for the record at a later time. But, again, as I heard this news, I was first filled with worry about her health, and I hoped she was OK. But she has clarified she absolutely is. So I wish her nothing but the best. I know she will always work on issues because she is so good at looking at a problem and solving it and not thinking first whether it is Democratic or it is Republican or where it falls on the political scales.…”