Political Quotes

“I rise simply to say a few words of personal tribute to our dear friend, the distinguished Senator from Colorado, who has just spoken so beautifully. We are going to miss this man. He has only been here 4 years, but he has made an extraordinary contribution to the Senate and to our country. I first got to know Ken Salazar in 2000 when I had the honor to be the Vice Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party and went to Colorado. I could see at the first meeting at which I met him--I had an instantaneous reaction to him--that this was a person of strength, of warmth, of character, of purpose. Every day I have known Senator Salazar since then has only deepened those feelings about him. You can feel all his strength and all of his purpose and all of his faith and all of his passion and all of his humility as you listen to this final statement he just made on the Senate floor. I love the fact that one of the last items Senator Salazar asked was unanimous consent to print in the Record his family genealogy because it speaks not only to his extraordinary history and greatness but to the greatness of our country.”