Political Quotes

“America has lost one of its most distinguished, imaginative, and indomitable sons, our former colleague Jed Johnson, who has been taken from our midst by a devastating cerebral hemorrhage. Madam Speaker, while it is true that fools rush in where angels dare to tread, it is also true that some angels have the courage to tread farther than others. Jed Johnson is such an angel. He reminds one of the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the early days of World War II when he said, ``Let no one say it can't be done. It must be done, and we have undertaken to do it.'' In the early 1970's I was a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia, and Jed approached me and said that if I would simply hold hearings on the tragedy, not well known, of Junior Village, where orphans in the District of Columbia were badly treated, that the orphanage would be closed down and replaced by group foster homes in the District of Columbia, a program which had been proven viable by the minister, Fred Taylor, at the Church of the Savior, where Jed Johnson and his wife Sydney and their daughters attended.”