Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it is really a great honor for me to be able to stand up and speak on behalf of this resolution. If there is anyone who deserves it, it is Joe Moakley. I can honestly say that, for the time that I have been in Congress, no one has personified to me more what it means to be a Congressman than Joe Moakley. If everybody in this House were like Joe Moakley, we would get along much better; we would get a lot more done. We would realize that partisanship is important, but yet it stops. We should be able to reach across the aisle and shake hands and have a drink and share a joke and make a cutting remark or humorous remark about one of our colleagues in a way that really shows the camaraderie that we should have. From the time I came here, Joe Moakley reached out to me. He was... a good guy in the very best sense of the word. Yet, he was also an outstanding Congressman, a man who fought and fights so hard for his district, a man who obviously believes the principles for the Democratic party, fights hard for those principles; but at the end of the day, is willing to sit down and talk with anyone, no matter what their party affiliation happens to be.”