Political Quotes

“I join my colleagues in thanking Senator Heidi Heitkamp for her service to her State and our Nation. I remember one of the first conversations Senator Heitkamp and I had after she joined the Senate. I told her: ``I would really like your support on a bill to help the kinds of mom-and-pop stores that are the heart of so many small towns in your state and mine.'' I was about to give her my ``elevator pitch'' on the Marketplace Fairness Act. It wasn't necessary. Heidi said: ``Uhm, Dick, you know the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision that makes the Marketplace Fairness Act necessary. I'm the petitioner in the case. `Quill v. North Dakota?' That's me. I was the North Dakota tax commissioner who started that lawsuit.'' As I was quick to learn, helping Main Street, mom-and-pop stores stay in business in the age of Amazon is just one of many causes that Heidi Heitkamp had been working on, tenaciously, for years before she was elected to this Senate. Heidi Heitkamp came to Washington with a to-do list. She worked doggedly, with Democrats and Republicans, to whittle down that list. It was clear from the day she arrived here that she meant to use her new position as a U.S. Senator to right as many old wrongs and fix as many intractable problems as she could. She leaves knowing that she made a difference in the lives of countless people, in North Dakota and far beyond. She has been a champion for Native Americans, whose voices are so rarely heard in the halls of power.…”