Political Quotes

“there were 16,653 alcohol-related fatalities in the year 2000, 40 percent of the total traffic fatalities for that year. Driving under the influence of alcohol continues to be one of our major domestic problems and issues and we must continue to work towards finding lasting solutions to this major problem. About a week ago, a driver under the influence of alcohol smashed out the lives of two of my community's most beloved citizens, Reverend Charles H. Shyne, Junior, and his wife of 54 years, Mrs. Verlena Pruitt Shyne. Reverend Shyne, at the time of his death, was serving as pastor of the Hamlet-Isom Christian Methodist Episcopal Church on West Division Street in Chicago. Mrs. Verlena Pruitt Shyne was a retired teacher who had worked for the Chicago public schools and other districts, who at the time of her death was serving as first lady of Hamlet-Isom and providing voluntary leadership to many local church initiatives and programs as well as denominational activities and functions.”