Political Quotes

“I come to the floor to talk about one of the greatest citizens, leaders, and public servants in the history of my State, Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr., who died June 28. We held services for him in Greenwich on Monday, and I want to celebrate him for a moment with my colleagues, because they don't make them like Lowell Weicker any longer. Lowell Weicker served virtually every capacity you could helping to lead our State. He was a first selectman. He was a State representative. He was a Congressman. He was a Senator here in this Chamber, and he was a Governor. But throughout his long, storied tenure as an elected official--for most of that time a Republican, as Governor an Independent--he led a life that was led by one simple axiom: Do what is right. He put his principles, his convictions, and what he thought was right for our State above every other political consideration--certainly above party. He bucked his party here over and over and over again. His autobiography was titled ``Maverick.'' But he also made decisions for the betterment of the State that ran directly contrary to his own political interests. And I will talk about the most famous of those decisions, those calls that he made, in a moment, when he was Governor. I got to know Lowell Weicker only in the last decade of his life, and I am sorry for that because he played a very big role in my decision to pursue public service as a vocation. Lowell Weicker was born in Paris.…”