Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), the Speaker Emeritus, for any remarks he may want to make. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the dean, Mr. Calvert, and my colleagues from California for their kind words. I am so very proud and appreciative of my friends for coming. Mr. Speaker, I thank the constituents for giving me this opportunity to serve them. To America, I loved every single day. Less than 13,000 people have ever been given the privilege or the honor to serve in this body. To those colleagues on the other side of the aisle, I thank them for the work they have done. We may disagree at times--I disagreed with the vote on this one, too, but one thing I think we must quite understand and the advice I can give is, do not be fearful if you believe your philosophy brings people more freedom. Do not be fearful that you could lose your job over it. I knew the day we decided to make sure to choose to pay our troops, while war was breaking out, instead of shutting down, was the right decision. I also knew a few would make a motion because somehow they disagreed with that decision. Do it anyway. I would do it all again. However, there is so much we were able to accomplish in a short amount of time.…”