Political Quotes

“Just prior to the gentleman from Alabama giving his statement there just now, a number of us asked our friend Doug Tanner and some others, I know that based on our pilgrimage, there will be a lot of us that would like to cosponsor legislation to make that little park just across the river by the real start of the Edmund Pettis Bridge a national park, a national shrine. We are looking for you to lead that effort as it is in your district, congressional courtesy. But if you wait too much longer, you are going to have some other people. We are offering that up, but I know a lot of us here, Republicans and Democrats, would like to cosponsor that effort and help you see that become a reality. As people gave their remarkable tales here on the floor tonight and what it meant to them, for some reason, about a little more than a year ago, John Lewis and maybe Amo Houghton and a few others, Jay Dickey, Doug Tanner, sort of had me on a list, and we got together down in a little room in the Capitol, EF-100, and we talked about racism and what we could do.”