Political Quotes

“I thought what irony. I am leaving to go to his funeral and seeing this book for the first time. It is interesting to me that if you wanted to get a caricature of Tip O'Neill, you find one every day in the comic pages. There is one comic, I cannot recall which one, that has a caricature that looks just like him, a big, overweight fellow, with a white mane. I guess for a lot of people in America, they look at that caricature and say that that is what is wrong with politicians. They are big, out of touch, and just are what we thought they would be. But that caricature does not tell the story of Tip O'Neill for those of us who knew him. The real question was not how a politician fills a suit, but what fills his heart. And when it came to Tip O'Neill, it was very clear that what filled his heart was his family, his love for the common person, and his love for this House of Representatives.”