Political Quotes

“I take just a moment this evening to join with my colleagues. It is an honor to serve in this body with my friends in the freshmen class. And it has been an honor to serve with Walter Capps. So much has been said about him, it is hard to know what to add, except to share a couple of personal experiences about Walter. He and I met through the television set. We were both featured on one of the stories near the end of the campaign about hot-contested races. I had the opportunity to hear about this wonderful man, this bright, wonderful author and professor in California. We both had similar opponents. When we got here at orientation, we were very quick to look each other up and, not knowing each other, gave each other a hug and said that we were glad that we had both made it. We went on to sit together on the Committee on Science. Walter sat next to me. He was all the things that everyone has said tonight in terms of his wit, his compassion, his intelligence, his caring.”