Political Quotes

“I wish to thank my colleague and friend from Connecticut on behalf of all the people of our State for his lifetime of public service. Our lives have been intertwined personally and professionally for almost 40 years. I had the privilege of coming to know Senator Lieberman's family, his parents who gave him the values and ideals he has expressed so eloquently and powerfully repeatedly throughout America as he did today on the floor of the Senate. That dream, which they inspired, is indeed a uniquely American dream, but it is rooted also in the Stamford and Connecticut community that we share, those ideals of faith, education and intellect and those qualities of independence and courage and perseverance in the face of adversity which he has embodied and taught to so many young people and others around our State and around the country and, of course, the ideals and goals of civility and, maybe most important for this body, the ideal of public service, which he has exemplified through all of these years, an unremitting, unstinting, and unwavering commitment to making the world a better place, person by person, individual by individual, helping make America equal to that great ideal and dream he has articulated so eloquently. I have been privileged, also, to know Joe's wife Hadassah, who has added so extraordinarily to his life and made possible so many of his achievements. This tribute is to her and his family as well as to him.…”