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On the recordNovember 16, 2006
What an extraordinary fellow. The most unlikely Senator you would ever see. He just didn't look the part at all. Maybe that is why he did so well in Minnesota and was so effective here. He was cut from a different mold. He used to sit back here in the last row, and he would stand and speak. He would stand in the middle of the aisle as he spoke and would kind of saunter around. He had a back injury from wrestling. He loved wrestling; not the kind you see on television but real collegiate wrestling. His involvement in wrestling cost him some back injuries that haunted him his entire life. So he would walk with a kind of a cantered gait as he went back and forth on the aisle and all around the Senate. But people didn't remember that part. They remembered what he had to say and they remembered what was in his heart.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Honoring the memory of Senator Paul Wellstone during a Senate floor speech.

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