Political Quotes

“Mr. President, let me first echo the comments of the Republican leader, Senator McConnell, about our colleague and friend, Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana. It has been my good fortune now for some 16 years to serve in the Senate with Senator Dick Lugar and to come to know him and his wife Char and, more importantly, to come to know their work together on behalf of Indiana and the United States. Dick Lugar is truly a giant in the Senate. We are going to miss him. There aren't many with the vision of Dick Lugar. There is something about standing in the middle of this country, Adlai Stevenson II once noted, with the flatlands all around you that gives you a perspective on the world a little different. Dick Lugar's perspective on the world has been so insightful and so important for decades. His work with Senator Nunn in dealing with the proliferation of nuclear weaponry and the dissolution of the Soviet Union was truly historic and may have saved the world from catastrophe time and again. He reached out to a young Senator from Illinois by the name of Barack Obama and took him on a congressional delegation tour to look into this issue. I think at the end of the day their friendship was solid, and President Obama notes it was one of the more important overseas visits he made as a Member of the Senate. I know Dick Lugar as well from the many times we came together with our wives at the Aspen Institute.…”