Political Quotes

“today, we mourn the death of a trailblazer, my colleague and friend Senator Dianne Feinstein. I have been privileged to have known Dianne throughout her entire career in this Chamber and my entire time as well. She was my friend and seatmate on the Senate Judiciary Committee for over 20 years. When you are that close to someone politically--day in, day out, week in, week out--you pick up on the things that mean the most to her. Certainly, her family was the highest priority to her, over all things, but her life experience created what we know as the legacy of Dianne. How many times she told the story of serving on the pardon and parole board for the State of California--the cases that she remembered in detail that had occurred decades ago stuck with her and inspired her when it came to her service on the Senate Judiciary Committee. I think that situation also inspired her when it came to legislation, where she was looking for fairness. We certainly all know her efforts in dealing with the Violence Against Women Act. That was an extraordinary effort by her, on a bipartisan basis with Senator Murkowski, Senator Collins, Senator Ernst, Senator Patty Murray, and so many others. In addition to that, she recounted many, many times that terrible, unimaginable tragedy when the mayor of San Francisco was killed along with Harvey Milk, a commissioner. She was there at the bloody scene afterward.…”