Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I generally don't do a whole lot of work on this stuff, but I've known these two gentlemen a long time. I met them both in 1976 when I was in law school and had the good fortune of getting a work study job at the statehouse. They were both there already. They were both already well recognized and influential at the statehouse; and I will tell you, from the day I met them, I started learning from both of them. I want to be very clear. I want to echo everything Richard Neal said. I hold public service up in high regard, and I know that everybody in the Mass delegation does as well. These two gentlemen not only have served in Congress; they've served at the State level, and they were both educators. They didn't do this because that's what they could do. One has a Ph.D. from MIT. The other has a law degree from Harvard. Either one of them could have done anything he wanted to do and been well compensated in doing it, and they could have had much more comfortable lives in never having read their names in the newspapers as bad people on different occasions. The fact is that they gave of themselves right from the beginning as young men. They didn't go out and make $1 million and then come in.…”