Political Quotes

“I think this may have happened to me at the funeral as well when I followed John Lewis at the podium. What a task. I thank the gentleman for being such an inspiration and thank him for loving Louise so much as we know she loved Brother John as well. Aren't we proud of Paul Tonko and his relationship with Louise, a friendship that goes back to the State legislature many years ago in New York. Louise came 31 years ago to the Congress. He came more recently, but his friendship goes back longer. So dear was he to her. So here we have Louise--and I don't have a magic minute, so this is not an 8-hour proposition in high heels, although I would love to do that for Louise any time--but let me just make some wishes. I wish you could have all been in Rochester for Louise's memorial service to hear her grandchildren talk about her. As a grandmother myself, and any time I go to a service now, I think: What do the grandchildren think? What do they know about their grandmother? Do they know how much their grandmother loved them? Louise's grandchildren do and did. Hopefully we will be hearing more from them. {time} 1815 They spoke magnificently about her personally--not so great about her cooking, not that day anyway. But, anyway, they just loved her so much. She was about the future, but she had a tremendous respect for the past as well. So when many of us, Brother John, visited her in Rochester, we would go to Susan B.…”