Political Quotes

“I rise in emphatic support of the nomination of Paul R. Carey of New York to be a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Carey, who has served since 1993 as special assistant to President Clinton, is an inspired public servant who is exceptionally well qualified for this position. I have known Paul Carey, boy and man. He was born in Brooklyn, the borough of churches. And indeed it was in a sort of church that we first met. It was in the summer of 1977. I was a newly serving Senator and Paul's father was New York's Governor. It was through Hugh Carey's heroic efforts that New York City was saved from bankruptcy. As I have often said elsewhere, Hugh Carey was New York's greatest Governor since Al Smith. Paul's father and I had gathered, along with several hundred others at Siena College, to be present at the induction of Howard Hubbard to serve as the bishop of the Diocese of Albany. Paul accompanied his father that day. He was still in grade school but he was attentive throughout and his firm handshake alone identified him as his father's son. We became friends and I shared his family's pride as he progressed through high school, graduated from Colgate University, and entered the world of business and finance. But I think he was always interested in public service. In 1991 he chanced upon my wife Liz in the Albany train station and said as much. He joined the Clinton administration at the first. And he has just shone.…”