Political Quotes

“I must say, of the large number of people I have gotten to meet, of all of them, Sonny was probably the hardest guy to be unhappy in his presence. There was about him a determination to seek out the most cheerful and the most upbeat in any situation. He radiated that, and he shared that, and we benefited from being in his presence. But we lose as an institution someone who was dedicated to the proposition that ideological and partisan differences were a good thing and part of our democracy, but that when personal enmity entered into it, it poisoned the process.”