Political Quotes

“this Chamber has been graced with many a fine and wondrous person. Rarely has a State sent two such. In the remarks of the junior Senator from Rhode Island concerning his senior colleague, we have an example the Republic would do well to consider. I would think, sir, of two moments. The first--and I see the senior Senator from Massachusetts on the floor--first would be in 1960, November, the Presidential election of that year. They were in a store front on Salina Street in Syracuse, NY. And my wife Elizabeth had persuaded Robert F. Kennedy that if his brother, then Senator Kennedy, could carry Syracuse, carry Onondaga County and carry New York, and accordingly become President of the United States, not the worst calculation, as a properly Democratic city had not voted Democratic since 1936. At 9:12 that evening, a phone call came from the compound, as I believe it was called, and it was Robert F. Kennedy calling for my wife, and the exchange went very quickly. It said: ``Did we?'' ``Yes.'' Click, and we had done it.”