Political Quotes

“let me begin by expressing my deep sorrow and my condolences to Robert C. Byrd's family. And that family includes, obviously, not only his direct, immediate family but obviously the literally legions of people who worked for Robert C. Byrd--worked with him in both the House of Representatives and this body for the more than five decades he served in the U.S. Congress. I suspect I am one of a handful of people left who remember the day when I was 7 years old, in the gallery of the House of Representatives, watching my father be sworn in as a new Congressman, watching my father and a young 34-year-old West Virginian named Robert C. Byrd to be sworn in as a Member of the House on January 3, 1953. Seven years later, at the age of 14, I was in the gallery of this Chamber when I watched my father and his great friend be sworn in together on January 3, 1959, as Members of the Senate. Two years later, as a 16-year-old sitting on the very steps where these young pages sit today, in the summer of 1961, I worked with Robert C. Byrd.”