Political Quotes

“Today we have named post offices after some great individuals--public servants, members of our military, politicians, community leaders--and we have done it in the name of respecting their legacies and in honoring them so that their families are honored as well. I just want to go through the names again: Ross McGinnis, Adam Brown, Roger Fussell, Gregory Barney, Garrett Gamble, Caleb Nelson, William Lacey, Louis Van Iersel, Louis Langlais, and Eugene McCarthy. Mr. Speaker, I urge the passage of H.R. 4425 and say, as it has been said earlier, that post offices are gathering places in our communities. I gave 30 years of service to the United States Postal Service at various levels of service. I know that the Postal Service is a place at which people trust their mail will be handled, for the commerce of our country rests in those post offices, and in small rural communities, it is the community center. Today we have done a great thing, and we have done it bipartisanly. I hear that word, and I sigh a breath of relief in knowing that this body--the Members of Congress--can come together. We have come together to recognize people not because of their parties, but because they are Americans and they have served this great country. I yield back the balance of my time. {time} 1930”