Political Quotes

“I join my colleagues today in tribute to our colleague, Senator John McCain of Arizona. We look for heroes in this world. It seems to me we are always looking in the wrong places. We look at baseball diamonds and basketball courts and amphitheaters and stadiums where performers sing, but we fail to look in the right places. Sometimes we are with heroes, and we don't always recognize it at the moment. Yet there is no American I know who is more deserving of the title ``hero'' than John McCain. Those who serve us in the military are entitled to that honorific, and those who serve in the military and serve others in the military--those who serve our veterans--are heroes too. Senator McCain lived a life in which heroics were a part of every day. I first met John McCain in 1996, in Hays, KS, my hometown. The habit was that Senator Bob Dole, then a candidate for President of the United States, would fly to the airport in Hays, near his hometown of Russell. This time he had a guest with him, John McCain, who was the campaign chairman on his Presidential campaign. I watched the two of them interact, and it was really the first time I had had the opportunity to see a Senator other than, perhaps, my own two from Kansas. Senator Dole had the greatest regard for Senator McCain. Senator Dole wore the POW bracelet. He never knew John McCain when he was a POW, but by happenstance, he chose to wear a bracelet in honor of and in respect and concern for a POW in Vietnam.…”