Joe Lieberman: “I have been honored to be here that there is another level of experience in this Capitol, which is that we are, in our…”

“I have been honored to be here that there is another level of experience in this Capitol, which is that we are, in our own way, a small town of our own. We are a community. Yes, we have the Members of Congress and we have all who serve in our offices so well. We have the officers of both Chambers and those who work to keep these Chambers going. But there is a broader community here that we are all part of. It is the people who keep the buildings in such good repair. We have doctors, we have nurses, we have clergy people, we have representatives of the media who live in this community with us who cover us. We even have our own newspapers. And we have police officers. We are a small town in the way that life is lived in so many small towns across America. But we are very different from most any of those small towns in that hundreds of thousands of fellow Americans--indeed, people from all over the world--come and walk through this great citadel of democracy, this great symbol of freedom, peacefully and respectfully, coming through our community.”