Political Quotes

“We will honor next week, as we have honored this week, an extraordinary American, John Robert Lewis. He will lie in state just a few yards from here. He will be honored by thousands who will walk by the Capitol and his casket, and that will be right. In the Gospel of Matthew, Christians read, and others read, the parable of the talents, in which a returning master praises his servants for being good stewards of his house. ``Well done, good and faithful servant,'' he says. Last Friday, I believe that God welcomed John Lewis into His embrace with those very same words: ``Well done, thou good and faithful servant.'' Faithful to his God, faithful to our people, and faithful to his country. For such he was, God's faithful servant on Earth, spending his life in service to all of God's children, to their equal dignity and equal rights, to their safety and success. That is how he approached his service as a Congressman as well. Those of us who served with John in this House and who were his friends know that he did not perform that work alone. And, therefore, I rise to honor, to thank, and to revere another good and faithful servant. His name, Michael Collins. We all know him. He was, arguably, John's closest friend, closest confidant, and greatest supporter. His Chief of Staff deserves great praise for not only all he did for John Lewis, but for all of us.…”