Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to remember a great American patriot, Elijah Cummings. On behalf of the people of Baltimore, I want to thank him for his incredible leadership, for his friendship to so many, for his mentorship of so many in the community and to me. I had the privilege for almost 12 years, the last 12 years of Elijah's life, to sit a few feet away from him in the Oversight and Reform Committee and to see what a national leader he was, how he fought for the left out and the locked out. I also had the opportunity to be with him on many occasions in Baltimore, to see how people responded to him, how they invested in his leadership. We will miss that dearly. I was thinking today as I drove from Baltimore through West Baltimore, the community he loved, about his fight for the soul of our democracy, and I had anxiety about if we can continue that fight without him. But it occurred to me that Elijah would not have left us when he did if he didn't believe that we had it within ourselves to finish that fight. Mr. Speaker, I thank Elijah for his inspiration. May his memory be eternal. ____________________”