Political Quotes

“Madam President, my colleagues Senators Jim Risch, Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken join me today in honoring the life of Harmon Clayton Killebrew. We join with his family and friends in mourning his passing and paying tribute to his inspirational life. Harmon Killebrew began his exemplary athletic career in Idaho. He was born June 29, 1936, in Payette, ID, where he earned multiple awards as an athlete in baseball, basketball and football at Payette High School. Harmon explained his childhood in Idaho in a way that fellow Idahoans could clearly understand. He often shared this quote from his childhood. ``My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, `You're tearing up the grass'; `We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. We're raising boys.' '' We understand Harmon often credited then-U.S. Senator from Idaho, Herman Welker, for recommending to then-Washington Senators owners, the Griffith family, that their team sign Killebrew, and at age 17, Killebrew signed his first professional baseball contract with the Washington Senators. He went on to play his first seven seasons here in Washington, DC, before moving with the franchise to Minnesota in 1961, when it would be renamed the Minnesota Twins. Killebrew played 14 seasons in Minnesota, making the All-Star team in 10 of those seasons. He also competed in the 1965 World Series, where his Twins would lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games.…”