Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, today is a different subject than I usually discuss in the course of these Special Order hours. Normally we come down here and we talk about how we are going to create jobs, how we are going to make better opportunities for people through education. We talk about making it in America, rebuilding our infrastructure, manufacturing, and the like. Yet, today, there is something else on my mind, and it happens to be an issue that I first came across in elementary school. On the school grounds at Mokelumne Hill Elementary School--a three- room school that was built in the late 1800s--there were not many kids, but there was always one kid who seemed to be picked on. I am not exactly sure why that young boy was the one to be picked on, but he was bullied. As the years go by, I suspect we forget about those things, but we know that the children are always listening. They are listening to each other on the school grounds and they are likely to join in this bullying and in picking on some kid on the grounds. That happened at Mokelumne Hill Elementary School many, many years ago. As our own kids were growing up, my wife would always say, ``Remember the children are listening. They are listening to what you have to say and they are going to copy what you say.'' In the year 2000, I was with my wife at a concert here in the Washington area, and Peter, Paul and Mary were performing that night.…”