Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding and thank you for bringing us together so that we can pay our respects and gratitude to the great Congressman from Rhode Island. On a personal note, just listening to his comments there, he and Congresswoman DeLauro have a competition about pizza. They don't know that most people come to San Francisco to learn how to make pizza. I say that in sharing the pride we take in our Italian-American heritage, and the knowledge that we have about food. In any event, I thank Mr. Cicilline for his great leadership in this Congress. He has been a champion on policy issues. He spelled them out here. I will never forget the day that he joined John Lewis, Katherine Clark, John Larson, and others, to have a sit-in on the floor of the House. Mr. Speaker, they did not tell us that they were doing this because as leadership we would have said you are not allowed to do that. They could anticipate that I might say that. They just protected the leadership from having to make that statement, and they launched their sit-in on the floor of the House. It was very successful because, by coincidence, we had planned a rally about gun violence prevention, and they were having a sit-in on gun violence prevention on the floor of the House. The whole world found out about it because Mr. Takano spread the word through his telephone, even though the Republicans turned out the lights in the House and nobody could see what was going on in here.…”