Political Quotes

“Madam President, we get to do a lot as Members of the Senate on the floor of this great body. We make great speeches and we have great debates. Periodically, from time to time, we pay tribute to someone in our State who has done great work for many people. I take this opportunity to do exactly that on the floor of the Senate. This Sunday night, at 5 p.m., at the Salem Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA, the Reverend Jasper W. Williams will be honored for his 50th year of continued service at the Salem Baptist Church. I have been privileged to know Jasper for 20 of those 50 years. I have been a member of that church and I heard his sermons. I have heard him preach the Gospel. I have seen him teach others and I have seen him save people's lives. I have heard and I have seen him reach out into the community to bring children together for daycare, to watch him help to mend the sick and the poor, and doing everything that is expected of a church and doing so without any expectation of benefit to himself, except for the self-satisfaction of serving the Lord and serving his church. He has a great church at Salem Baptist. They have two sites, as a matter of fact, and two large congregations. He succeeded his father as a minister and learned the ministry from his father. He went to Salem Baptist Church to preach as a guest on Easter Sunday in 1963.…”