Political Quotes

“I thank you. A few moments ago, Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi spoke on the floor of the Senate about the pastor from my State of Illinois who just got into her truck and drove to Mississippi to see what she could do to help. There are people like her all over my State and all over this Nation. Illinois so far has received 500 Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Another 250 will arrive at the Rockford Airport today. The number could rise into the thousands. Thirty families so far have asked to enroll their children in Illinois schools, and more are on their way. America's Second Harvest, based in Chicago, and the American Red Cross, filled a United Airlines flight with 25,000 pounds of critically needed relief supplies and sent it--in just a few days from Chicago to New Orleans. I got a call while I was traveling the State last week from a Pepsi Cola distributor in Quincy, IL. He said: Senator, I want to send 33,000 cases of water to Louisiana. How can I do it? We have been working with them ever since. Six-hundred Illinois firefighters traveled to Baton Rogue. Personnel from the Scott Air Force base near Belleville, IL, have been busy flying airlift missions to the disaster area. Mr. President, 328 members of the Illinois National Guard are providing some of the big trucks they desperately need to transport people and material to the areas hard hit by Katrina.…”