Political Quotes

“I rise in tribute to a great guy and a good friend, Bill Emerson, the third of my friends to pass away in the last 2 months, all under 58 years of age. We would all like to think we can make a difference in this world when we go. Bill Emerson can certainly say he made a difference, whether as a page with the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Paul Kanjorski, when this place was shot up, as memorialized in the photograph that has been mentioned earlier, or as a graduate of Westminster College, where earlier Winston Churchill gave his famous Iron Curtain speech; whether through his efforts to travel to Africa and elsewhere to exhibit his concern for the hungry and the needy, to try to feed those who were most in need; whether through his dedicated and devoted representation of his constituents, or his guidance and oversight of the Mississippi watershed, taking trips to New Orleans with the wonderful people along the Mississippi River, go down there and try to make sure that those who needed flood protection were able to have that protection from the devastation of floods, and at the same time to partake of a little bit of New Orleans jazz and seafood, which he deeply loved and enjoyed with his wife Jo Ann. In fact, he will be remembered for the love that he bore for his wife Jo Ann and his four daughters. Bill Emerson, in fact, did make a difference.”