Political Quotes

“before I came into the Chamber, I said to Senator Kennedy, ``This is discouraging. I am about to be 60 and you just turned 70 and I don't like it. I don't like anything about this. As a matter of fact, it drives me crazy.'' As a matter of fact, Senator Kennedy, with a much more distinguished career than me, has suffered through the same illusion and delusion that I have. I got here when I was a couple days younger than he, and for the longest time I was the youngest, and all of a sudden you wake up and say, oh, my God. In my case, there are only a total of six Senators who have been here longer than me. That is equally discouraging. In his case, I think only two have been here longer than him. This place has a way of promoting the delusion that you are still young. One thing about Ted Kennedy, having had the honor--and I mean that sincerely--of working with him for 29 years is that he is still young. He is younger, I think, than anyone in this Chamber because I have observed, as have we all, that he is still as passionate, as devoted, as committed to the notion that he can change the world as he was when he got elected at 30 years old. My dad is in the hospital and I hope he is watching. He has an expression: ``It is a lucky man or woman who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'' That said, I think Ted Kennedy may be the luckiest man I have ever known. He has no doubt.…”