Political Quotes

“with humility for an honor neither sought nor expected, I rise for the first time as a U.S. Senator. At a time of great consequence for our country's long march toward justice--and the moral compass we call the Constitution that guides our path--I rise to strongly support President Barack Obama's nominee for the office of U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder. As we look toward the future, I begin with a few words about the past. Back in the 1950s, there was a place in my hometown of Centralia, IL, called the pig wobble, and it wasn't hard to figure out why: Pig wobble was the place where the horses, the cows, and, yes, the pigs, from all nearby farms came to drink water. It was also the place where African-American children came to swim in the summertime. My friends and I swam in the pig wobble until the summer of my 16th birthday, in 1953, when, after previous efforts to integrate the park swimming pool where only white children swam had failed. My dad finally had enough of his children swimming with the farm animals while the White children went off to the nice clean neighborhood pool.”