Political Quotes

“I thank Chairman Neal. What an honor to be here with the Committee on Ways and Means' family. They said pictures are worth a thousand words, and I am going to try to go through these as rapidly as I can. The first picture is my son and daughter, who came--as Mike was just explaining as part of his family--to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but they had to be back in school the next day and so they couldn't actually march across the bridge that Sunday. John said: Wait a minute. That won't do. He put them in a car and drove them out there, and for 20 minutes talked to them about that experience and what it was. And it was very tense, very graphic, the violence that he endured and what they went through. And I could see both my daughter and my son looking at him, and they were taking it all in. And my daughter, very innocently--she was 13 at the time--said: Mr. Lewis, did you ever have any fun? And John Lewis put his head back and had the broadest grin. He said: Well, sure, darling, we did. You know, at night we used to go back and we would pitch our tents, and we would make campfires, and we sat around and told stories. And we sang and we danced. He said: I can still see Andy Young in his coveralls doing the jitterbug, and he could dance. Andy Young in his coveralls doing the jitterbug. Madam Speaker, I will include in the Record our other items, but this iconic photo says it all about John Lewis.…”