Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for yielding. As I look at Walter here, it reminds me when I came to Congress in 2013, my first term here. Walter was one of the first people who befriended me. We had, over the course of several Congresses, many, many good laughs. He was always quick to laugh. He was always gentle, strong in his conviction, and he wouldn't hesitate to hold you accountable. Every time I went on a codel, he would scold me for spending the taxpayers' money. When the codel went to go to his funeral, I said, if I went on that codel, Walter would roll over in his grave and yell at me, and so I chose not to go just to honor him on that. He would give you the shirt off of his back and help you in any way he could. There was a Christmas ball, and I had to have a date for my daughter because she came up here. I took my wife, and I called Walter. He said: ``I don't want to do that, but for you, I will do that.'' That is the kind of friend he was. And he walked my daughter in there so that she got to go. He cared about God, country, his family, the people who serve this great Nation, and the people in his district. He was held in high esteem, as was evidenced the day when Thomas Massie and Louie Gohmert gave the eulogy here in the talk about Walter. That was the quietest this Chamber had ever been without the Speaker having to interrupt. He was always fun to have a joke with or laugh, and we had many.…”