Political Quotes

“Thank you. I do want to thank Congresswoman Clayton for doing this. I think it is very important that we pay tribute to a man who has died too young, who served his country so well, and I know others will join by memorializing Secretary Ron Brown by virtue of submitting statements. I just want to say that there is a vacuum in the world, there is a vacuum in the country, there is a vacuum in the hearts of country men and country women because of the untimely loss of Ron Brown. He is a man who is dedicated to his country, to his community, to his profession to a ``T'', to his family especially, and certainly to his friends. I became acquainted with Ron Brown because as somebody who is involved with the technology subcommittees, as chair of it, under our jurisdiction is the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and the Technology Administration, and obviously all of this is part of the Department of Commerce. I have never found anybody who would work so perseveringly, indefatigably, and with a tremendous sense of humor and with a tremendous ability for what he believed.”