Political Quotes

“I do not do this very often, but today, I would like to address the Senate about a friend of mine, a neighbor from Wilmington, DE. Dan Frawley was not a native of Delaware; he was born and raised in upstate New York. But from the day he adopted the city of Wilmington as his home, Dan Frawley became one of its most devoted citizens and most enthusiastic cheerleaders. Dan came to Delaware in 1972, having just added an MBA from the Wharton School to his law degree; he was poised, it must have seemed to those who welcomed him, for a long, lucrative private-sector career in the legal division of the Du Pont Co. In 1973, by the luck--and it was truly Wilmington's luck--by the luck of a random drawing, Dan Frawley became the first urban homesteader in the United States. For $1, he was given a run-down house in the west-center of a city that had been rocked by riots just 5 years before, a city that had been abandoned as a home by too many of its residents, and abandoned as a lost cause by too many of its neighbors.”