Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from Delaware, Senator Tom Carper. He and I came to the House of Representatives together many years ago. He went off on another assignment as Governor of his State, and then came back and ran for the U.S. Senate. We are lucky to have him. He is a great Senator, a great friend, and a great colleague. He takes on important issues every day on behalf of his State and the Nation, and I thank him for his support for this conversation about DACA and Dreamers. I would like to take a little different approach to this than I usually do on the floor, and I have come to the floor many times to talk about it. I would like for everyone here who is listening to this debate to pause and think for a minute: What is the worst job you have ever had-- the worst job? Maybe it was the worst job because it was boring, and boring jobs are terrible. But there are some pretty bad jobs out there. I could tell you my worst job. I was working my way through college in what we euphemistically call a packinghouse. In the old days, they called them slaughterhouses. What happened was that hogs came off the truck in one door, and two days later pork chops and bacon went out the back door. In between, there were some pretty awful jobs--hot, dirty, smelly, and dangerous jobs. I took it as a college student because it paid $3.65 an hour in the 1960s--pretty darned good, in fact, better than anything else I could find.…”