Political Quotes

“I come to the floor this afternoon to talk about a great friend of mine, Margaret Miner. My friend Margaret Miner died last week. I am really sad about it. Her family and her friends are really sad about it because she was a great friend, she was warm, and she was generous, because she was funny, she was kind, because she made a lot of other people's lives better. But I am also sad because Margaret was one of a kind. She was a true Renaissance woman. She was a polymath. She was voracious about intaking the world and about giving back to it. I have never met anybody like her. I will never meet anybody like her again. I will never see a partnership like the one that she had with her late husband Hugh Rawson. Her legacy lives on, but there is just no doubt that the mold was broken in two when they made Margaret Miner. She was born in New York City in 1938. Her parents--Tony and Francis--were in show business, which kind of makes sense if you knew her but kind of doesn't. In 1984, she moved from Brooklyn to Roxbury, CT--Roxbury is a smalltown, quintessential New England village in Northwest Connecticut--and there she became a fixture in the community. She began her life's work of fighting to protect the natural beauty of this State that she called home for the next 40 years. I first met Margaret as soon as I graduated college. So I went to work for a long-shot congressional candidate who happened to be personal friends with Margaret and Hugh.…”