Political Quotes

“I rise today to pay tribute to someone who hasn't been in the Senate very long, but whose character, compassion, and dedication to justice will leave a mark here for years to come. Many of us are old enough to remember that awful day in 1963 when a peaceful Sunday morning was shattered by a bomb. This attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan, ended the lives of four young girls: Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair. I was just a little younger than Carole, Addie, and Cynthia, who were all 14. Doug Jones was just a couple of years younger than 11-year-old Denise. When something so unspeakable happens to people you could have gone to school with, been friends with, and grown up with, it sticks with you. It certainly stuck with Doug. He got involved in organizing at the University of Alabama and volunteered on a campaign to modernize the State's courts. After graduating from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, he served as staff counsel on the Judiciary Committee for Senator Howell Heflin, whose seat he currently holds. After time as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and in private practice, Doug was confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama in 1997. In that position, he successfully prosecuted two of the four men responsible for the devastation on that long-ago Sunday morning.…”