Political Quotes

“Mr. President, last week, on the floor, I thanked five of my colleagues in the Senate who will be leaving at the end of this Congress. Today, I would like to thank three more. If you read any profile on Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, there is a good chance you will see the word ``rumpled'' in the description of his presentation before the Senate. A rumpled suit has become his trademark. In fact, George Will once wrote that Sherrod ``radiates rumpledness, even in a well-pressed suit.'' Such characterizations have never seemed to bother Sherrod because, you see, he didn't come here to be a clothes horse or pose for GQ. He wouldn't know what to do with a custom-made, clean-pressed suit every day at work. Sherrod Brown has spent 50 years in public office--50--including the last 18 years in the Senate. He is the kind of person who comes to the Senate ready to fight for people who don't have lawyers and lobbyists to speak for them. Sherrod grew up in Mansfield, OH, a town hit hard and early by the decline in American manufacturing. His family was comfortably middle class, but many of his friends and seatmates in school weren't so lucky. When a factory in the town closed, his friends' families struggled and worried. Sherrod has spent his life trying to make those families, and others like them, in a position to get a fair shake. It is a noble kind of service to feel the burdens of others and to work to ease their load, even when you don't need help yourself.…”