Political Quotes

I appreciate my colleague's kind comments about my imminent departure after 30 years on this committee and in the Senate.

with some reluctance, I rise to talk about this issue. Having given what I thought was my last set of remarks on the floor a week or so ago, I thought I would let it lie there rather than come over. But this is such an important matter. In…

Well, they're going to have quite a stage now, with the World Cup and the Olympics coming up in the next few years.

But, whether such a temptation is motivated by a noble desire to speed up the legislative process or by pure political expedience, I believe such changes would be unwise. To my fellow Senators who have never served a day in the minority, I…