Political Quotes

“I recall a few days after this tragedy making a telephone call to a friend of mine, a very successful business executive in Chicago, just to ask him how things were going. He said to me on the phone what this article said. He said: The roaring nineties are over. We are going into a new era. As this article says, he believes it is an era that focuses on a lot of other things, whether it is family, community, and church, values that all of us hold dear, and certainly a new respect for this great Nation, which has been symbolized by the sea of flags that you see in every community across Illinois and across the Nation. It is a time of testing for this country, and we will rise to that challenge, I am certain. We will count our friends. Madam President, I would like to also make a part of the Record--I will ask for consent in a moment--one of the most amazing speeches that I have read. It is a speech by someone who is not an American but who commented on our experience and then pledged his alliance, his friendship, and his solidarity to help us in our effort.”