Political Quotes

“At this time the chair recognizes the Honorable Speaker Mike Johnson. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for being here. The SPEAKER. You know what, I am going to stand right in the middle. How about that. I am so grateful to all of you. Barbara, good to see you. Donna, thank you, and Cheri, and everybody who does so much good work for this organization. This has been a wild week for us. They are all wild weeks now. We keep making history. I keep saying to Stephanie that we don't want to make history. We just want a normal Congress. Nobody knows what that looks like anymore. It has been an interesting week. Monday night, I was in here. I was doing a late-night tour. I don't get to do those anymore. My son was here, Barbara. He is a freshman at the U.S. Naval Academy. He brought 40 midshipmen, his classmates. They came in full uniform. It is such a proud thing to see them here. Half the group had never been to the Capitol before. They are just in Annapolis, but they come from all over the country. They came in here, and they were seated right here. I let them walk in, as we do, for late-night tours. You have all done it. Everybody just takes their seat. I said, you guys are all on the Democrat side. It was fun. I shared with them some of the neat features of our Chamber here. What was really moving to me was the awe that was on their faces.…”