Political Quotes

“As I noted in my past remarks a moment or so ago, today in Philadelphia, PA, some of the leaders of our country, former Presidents as well as President Clinton and numerous other elected officials and volunteer leaders from around the Nation, are meeting to try to provide incentives to all of us to take a greater and more active role in volunteering in our communities to help our fellow citizens. In light of that happening, I cannot help but think about a friend of mine who passed away a couple of years ago, former Gov. George Romney of Michigan. Governor Romney was elected Governor of our State in 1962 and held that job for 6 years, at which time he was asked to join the Cabinet of President Nixon and became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Prior to his Government service, he had been the president of American Motors Corp. So he had a distinguished career in both business as well as in the public sector. When he left Government officially, he then made sort of his principal focus in life the spirit of voluntarism and worked in a variety of ways throughout his remaining 20 years or so of life to try to generate nationwide interest and support for voluntarism.”