Dick Durbin: “One of the greatest orators in the history of English-speaking people was Winston Churchill. I can't tell you how many…”

“One of the greatest orators in the history of English-speaking people was Winston Churchill. I can't tell you how many times I have read and reread his speeches and heard his great efforts to summon the courage of the British people during World War II. In one respect the speech earlier this morning by Senator McConnell was Churchillian, in the tradition of Winston Churchill, because they once said to Winston Churchill: What do you think history will have to say about you? He said: I'm not worried about what history has to say about me because I'm going to write the history. This morning Senator McConnell decided to write the history of the Senate session. Unfortunately, his version was a little bit different than the memory of most of us in terms of what has actually happened.…”