Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Leader, for those words. I know we have a few other Members of Congress who are trying to make it here, and so I will just say a couple more things as we wait for them to come in. When I was with Secretary Albright and brought her to Michigan, we were on this road trip. I think most people know she is not a tall woman. No one ever would describe her as a tall woman. She was quite petite. I drove her around in my Ford Escape, and we had to kind of help her into the front seat. It happened to be what is called Paczki Day in Michigan, Fat Tuesday. It is when we all eat these jelly doughnuts full of powdered sugar on top. We brought a box of those in the car, and she indulged me and tried a paczki that day. We just had hours in the car driving around my very large district and got to talking. I think that one of the best things you can have when you are a younger person learning from someone who has really broken glass ceilings is you have time with them to just hear stories about what life was like. She told me that her one regret in life is that she never ran for Congress. She never ran for office. She was a chief of staff up here, a legislative assistant. She was adjacent to campaigns pretty much her entire adult life, but she never actually ran herself. I can only imagine how successful she would have been as an elected leader because, as Speaker Pelosi mentioned, she had that thing where she could connect deeply with anyone from any background.…”