Political Quotes

“I appreciate the time, and I appreciate your being down here with me. I think about the just a couple of years that you and I have served in this Congress, and I think back, and I hope ``Schoolhouse Rock'' was on TV when you were coming along. The thing I did when the Internet came out--yes, I was old enough to remember when the Internet came out--was I looked up the ``Schoolhouse Rock'' video, and I looked up ``I'm just a bill sitting here on Capitol Hill'' because it tells the tale--and we learned that before we learned all of our times tables, we learned about how a bill becomes a law. We learned about what this great experiment in self-governance is, and it is the United States of America. It makes me sad that it comes on less on Saturday mornings than it used to, and now, parents are down on watching as much TV on Saturday mornings. I hope ``Schoolhouse Rock'' is still required viewing in every family in America because the whole process of how a bill becomes a law is critically important to who we are as a people--as a people. I know it happens to you, Mr. Speaker, like it happens to me. I go back home, and I am the Congressman. I am the Congressman. I am holding the townhall meeting. I am standing up in front of the room. Maybe I am up on the stage, I have got a big microphone. There are all these folks sitting out there in the audience, and it dawns on me that I am the servant, and all the bosses are sitting out there.…”