Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to add one thought. I was about to run and jump in my minivan and head to Delaware. The thought occurred to me, your father-in-law served all those years in uniform with the Army and then many more years in uniform with the Postal Service. I want to say to the men and women who serve in the Postal Service today, around the country and, literally, around the world--to the men and women who are serving in uniform, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard--I just want to say to the Postal Service, thank you for enabling our men and women in service, in uniform, who are serving around the world, to actually vote this year. When I was a naval flight officer in Southeast Asia during my first and third tour, I was in a P-3 squadron, and we did service surveillance for engineer aircraft--land base, South China Sea, the Gulf of Thailand, and off the coast of Vietnam. I was asked by my commanding officer to be the voting officer--and not once but in 1970 and again in 1972. We had 300 men. We had no women in our squadron then. But my job was to get 300 men signed up, registered to vote in their States--and they are from all over the country--and I did the same thing again in 1972. It was a source of great joy to me to know that we were able to exercise our right to vote on the other side of the world and made possible by the Postal Service.…”