Political Quotes

“I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close if the gentleman from North Carolina has no further speakers. Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time for the purposes of closing. Mr. Speaker, I have no further speakers, but I will give my ranking member the final word on this subject. I close with one story that has an impact on me about Shirley Chisholm. We know the story of George Wallace, segregationist, racist, Governor of Alabama, running for the Presidential nomination. Shirley Chisholm was running for the same nomination. When George Wallace was shot five times while campaigning and then paralyzed, who showed up at the hospital but Shirley Chisholm? I think of myself as a charitable person. I think of myself as someone who could rise above. We all think that we have that in us, but imagine that. Imagine that somebody who is campaigning to take your rights away, to ensure that you don't have rights that are duly yours under the Constitution, and Shirley Chisholm was the one who showed up at the hospital. Talk about the charity and the spirit of that. That is so much bigger and so much greater than what we get to see in our common day. It is those special moments that give a perspective on who this person was. I didn't have the opportunity to know her, but I do get to pass her portrait here in the Capitol Building, and her portrait says it all. It absolutely says it all about who she was.…”