Political Quotes

“I rise this evening with sadness at the passing of Joe Skeen. Joe Skeen was a friend of mine, a great member of this Congress for many years from New Mexico, somebody who served this Congress with great love, with great compassion, and a steady hand. We will all miss him. He chose not to run in the last Congress, but he was a great friend; and his funeral will be this coming Thursday, and later on we will have a session to honor him. Mr. Speaker, I also rise this evening to give an end-of-the-session assessment of the first session of the 108th Congress, to recount our accomplishments and to review what we have left to do. This session of Congress commenced as we were engaged in a struggle against terrorism and as our economy struggled in a near recession. We opened this session with three major goals: first, to make our Nation safer from terrorists and those states that support them; second, to grow our economy and create jobs for American workers; and, third, to make America a better place to live for all of our citizens. We have had a notable success in all three areas.”