Political Quotes

“Madam President, it is my distinct opportunity to talk about my good friend Senator Mike Braun from Indiana. Senator Braun and I came up here at the exact same time. He was 99th in seniority and I was 100th in seniority 6 years ago. We both have very similar backgrounds. Both of us had built businesses. Both of us have very similar backgrounds in how we got started. Neither of us started with any money. We got to build successful businesses. We had to figure out how to control our costs because, you know, you are not going to succeed if you don't figure out how to control your costs. He had a very similar experience as I did on how you control healthcare costs: You make your employees consumers of healthcare. You make them be the ones that make the decision on how they are going to spend healthcare dollars. He also is very focused on the problems of Federal debt, the problems of Federal spending. From the time he got up here, he was a champion of fiscal sanity. With our wives, we had the opportunity to travel to Israel--I think our first summer here; I think it was our first summer--and spend a week there just learning everything we could about Israel. Senator Braun has a wonderful family, a wonderful wife--also an entrepreneur like he is. So I am going to miss him a lot. He talked about the fact that we were so naive when we first came up here.…”