Political Quotes

“I want to express my gratitude to my friend and colleague from Alaska. It is, indeed, a deep well of darkness into which a family is cast when they receive a diagnosis of ALS. My own awareness of this disease and its dread consequences is rooted in a number of cases that came to me and my extended family now quite a few years ago. My brother is with us here in the Chamber today, and his dear friend Dan Loftus passed through ALS, and I remember the pain that this caused him and the depth of that loss. A friend of mine from Delaware, Alex Snyder-Mackler, first shared with me his father Scott's diagnosis with ALS, now 20 years ago. And year after year, as many of us would gather in Newark and run a 5K and do a fundraiser for some sort of research, for some sort of hope, his father Scott slowly slipped away. I talked to Alex this morning and was reminded of how much this means to those families who have come through this. Max Walton, a dear friend of mine in the bar in Delaware, and his father--just an unbelievable character, a great and funny and creative and capable man who built a family business and then slipped from us through ALS. ALS was first known to America when Lou Gehrig, an outstanding baseball player, got it. And he is still famous for his ``I am the luckiest man in the world'' speech, when he announced his retirement from baseball.…”