Political Quotes

“If I can ask my colleagues to join me at the well. Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Madam Leader, Mr. Whip, and Majority Leader. I couldn't prepare anything this morning because I knew that I would not be able to hold it together for very long. I am so proud of my friend, and it will always be one of the great treasures of my life to have met Gabby Giffords and to have served with her in this body. We have all been through such a tumultuous year. The Nation has been through a tumultuous year, no one more tumultuous than Gabby and her family and her constituents in her beloved home city of Tucson, Arizona. Being able to be Gabby's voice today and knowing her as well as I do, the one thing that has not been said is that Gabby wants her constituents to know, her constituents who she loves so much in southern Arizona, that it has been the greatest professional privilege of her life to represent them; that she loves them, as a fifth- generation Tucsonian; that her public service has meant a great deal to her; that this is only a pause in that public service; and that she will return one day to public service to represent them, as she has so capably done for the last 5\1/2\ years. And let me just say, a point of personal privilege, that the last year has been one of the honors of my life.…”