Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today and will be joined by a number of my colleagues from the State of Michigan to pay tribute to a person that I have known of and got to know as an adult, but I have known Congressman John Dingell virtually all of my life. Having grown up in Michigan and grown up in a family involved in politics in Michigan, I was aware of John Dingell from my earliest days. He served in this House with incredible dignity and great distinction, longer than anyone else in the history of this country, of this government. In fact, nearly one out of four Members of the House of Representatives in its entire history served with Congressman John Dingell. Yesterday, several of us made an attempt to fly, we left Andrews Air Force Base in a storm and attempted to fly to Michigan and were, unfortunately, unable to land due to the weather. We are here and will be able to honor him this evening and also honor him tomorrow at the funeral that will take place here in Washington. So our thoughts go to the Dingell family, especially to our colleague, John's wife, Congressman Dingell's wife, whom he often referred to as ``the lovely Deborah.'' She is a friend and a colleague. I have known her myself, as well, for as long as I can possibly remember. I will have more to say about Congressman Dingell, but I think there are just a few aspects of his career that I just want to make sure I noted for the ecord.…”