Political Quotes

“I listened to these carefully and I hope others did as well. They were beautiful life stories, beautifully written, beautifully spoken by the Senator. He has given 90 tributes on the floor and hopes before he leaves the Senate in a few weeks to finish the last 50. He is determined to get it done as a tribute to these families. He said: It is about all we can do, isn't it? He is right. It says a lot about Mike DeWine, a lot that many of us already knew. I came to Congress with Mike in 1982. I recall we were both elected to the House of Representatives. I was from the central part of Illinois and he was from Ohio. We had a dinner at the White House. I recall that his wife Fran, who had just had a baby a few days before, came in her beautiful gown with her husband Mike in a tuxedo, carrying a basket with their baby in it. Mike and I have worked on so many things--the global AIDS epidemic. He has been my go-to guy on the Republican side of the aisle.”