Political Quotes

“Mr. President, replying to my colleagues, I think the Senators from Nebraska and South Carolina know that I have great affection and respect for them--and I have from the day they got here. I used to be a State treasurer. I was elected at the tender age of 29. Delaware had the worst credit rating in the country. We were dead last and couldn't balance our budgets to save our souls, and we had pretty much no money in the unemployment insurance fund. Over time, we straightened out our finances, elected a guy named Pete du Pont as our Governor. I was treasurer for a while, and we had a Democratic and a Republican legislature--split. We learned how to work together. It is something we call ``the Delaware way.'' Later on, I got to be Governor, succeeded not Pete du Pont but Mike Castle, who was his successor. I was very active in the National Governors Association. They even let me be chairman for a while. I was the lead Democratic Governor on welfare reform when I was a member of the National Governors Association. I was raised in a coal mining town in West Virginia. Parents--not much money, deep faith, hard work. My dad used to say to my sister and me: I don't care if you have to work three jobs to pay your bills, work three jobs. That is really the way I was raised, and I suspect that most of us here were raised that way--a strong work ethic.…”