Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I stand before you with your congressional women's softball team, who are tanned, rested, and ready to beat the press tonight. Our bipartisan team has been practicing for the last 3 months at 7 in the morning, two to three mornings a week, with batting practice at night at the cages at the Nationals training academy. We have been singularly focused on two things--I know it doesn't make sense, because that would mean it wasn't singularly--making sure that we can continue to raise awareness about the risk that young women face of breast cancer and to make sure that we can shine a spotlight on the fact that young women can and do get breast cancer. This is our ninth annual game. It is the eighth time that we are playing the common ``enemy''--we say that affectionately--the female Capitol press corps. They have been incredible partners in helping this year cross the incredible milestone of raising more than $1 million for the Young Survival Coalition. We are so proud of that. We want to thank our coaches who have been remarkable through all these years. Of course, we have our head coach, Torie Barnes, Jo Ann Emerson's daughter, who was the cofounder of this game 9 years ago; our own House favorite, Natalie Buchanan, who is an amazing new mom who has been out there with us, in spite of just having a baby a few short months ago; Coach Jim, who has been amazing as well; and, of course, our very own colleague, Coach Ed Perlmutter from the great State of Colorado.…”