Political Quotes

“Madam President, I rise to speak in thanks and in recognition of my dear friend and colleague, the senior Senator from the great State of Delaware, Tom Carper. All of us have had a chance to hear his farewell speech, but I get a chance to add just a little bit here on the end. You know, when folks have said to Senator Carper: What do you plan on doing in retirement at home? He has repeatedly said: I don't plan on retiring. And this has a history to it. As you know, in the arc of his decades of service in our Senate and in our State, he was our Governor. And he has described himself many times as a ``recovering Governor'' who never really recovered. He never stopped being intimately interested in and engaged in every detail of our community. And I cannot thank you enough, TC, for your more than five decades of service to our Nation, to our State, to our party, to the world. I have a lot of remarks, and I will try not to use all of them, but I think you are the alltime champion, having been elected 14 times statewide: State treasurer, Congressman, Governor, Senator. You are frugal. I have had the experience of your having made a modest contribution to a very early campaign of mine, and I failed to timely deposit the check, and not long thereafter, you accosted me and said: You never cleared this check. It is in my checkbook. Everybody knows that you drove a fabulous minivan more than 400,000 miles.…”