Political Quotes

“Thank you very much, Mr. President and Vice President. Well, Mr. President, we all take pleasure in calling you that. Mr. Vice President, Senator, foreign policy guru, the Senator who was tough on crime but a soft touch when it came to compelling human need, a longtime colleague, but most of all, I know you as my friend Joe. My friend Joe. It is not only that I know you as my friend Joe, the people of Delaware know you as ``my friend Joe.'' The fact is, your colleagues, both present and past, here feel the same way about you and so do the American people. You have a unique ability to make a visceral connection to people. You actually connect to them, not only on the abstraction of big ideas, of which you were more than capable, but I think your connection was hand to hand, heart to heart. I think when you talk with people, that is why you have this visceral connection. Sure, you can debate the great ideas, whether it is national security or economic growth, but it is that heart connection you are able to make that I think has been one of your great, great signatures. We in Maryland know you as a neighbor, the Delmarva gang from Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.…”