Political Quotes

“I want to thank my colleague from Florida bringing to the floor an extremely important issue: the way in which China is removing the civil liberties. Tonight, I do want to talk about America and some of the things that are going on within our own country. When I do these floor sessions, I always want to start with some sense of value and purpose, so I usually begin with this quote from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and I think it pretty much describes--not pretty much. It definitely describes how I view my job and how I view what I would hope would be the work of the Congress of the United States. So here is his quote: ``The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.'' This statement of value really flows down through much of what we do here. We make a choice almost every day in ways that are very direct, for example, when we talk about Social Security, or indirect when we talk about war and peace. In the case of war, men and women who die are generally those who have little, not those who have much. So I want to keep this in mind, and I want to talk about several pieces of legislation that we are working on right now. I want to talk about seniors. Now, way back when Franklin Roosevelt established the Social Security system in the height of the Great Depression, Social Security was a pension system.…”