Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman, Mr. Johnson, for yielding and for organizing this. Madam Speaker, I sat here and listened to all of these people talk about Luke Letlow, and I don't know who they are talking about. Luke was a redneck. There is this iconic picture of Luke where he is wearing this hat, and it says: ``Start Fire.'' The only thing that comes to mind is this is parent material, right? Luke was a good ol' boy, and I know, in many instances, that term is associated with negativity. That is not Luke. Luke was a force for good, and he did that before the Navy even coined that term. I have known him for 15, 20 years. We staffed together up here in Congress. We worked together in the Governor's office in Louisiana. Luke was always a workhorse, always, not a show horse. Madam Speaker, Luke was a public servant. He wasn't a politician. He had a heart for the public. He had a heart for fixing things, and he was good at it. Luke brought folks together, and he got things done. There wasn't a prejudiced or discriminatory bone in his body. Everybody was a friend. Everybody Luke met, he looked you in the eye, he gave you that little grin, which was a little bit cockeyed, and he truly wanted to know you. He truly wanted to get to know people, to find out what you were about. He loved finding out about the background or history of people, their ancestry, their relatives, where they were from, what they did, what they cared about.…”