Political Quotes

“it is a new day and I am enjoying it. I remember when I came from Frankfort, KY, as a former Governor, I had a file cabinet, one of those paper file cabinets, drawer size, with projects in it that I was unable to complete. If you remember--maybe you all are not old enough--but if you remember, we had a pocket veto of highway funds and utility funds by President Nixon. A suit was filed, as I recall--do not hold me to every detail, but a suit was filed--and I think Senator Muskie was the chairman of the Budget Committee, and the Governor of Missouri filed suit. The courts held that the President of the United States had to release that money. Well, we had been held up for a year and we were into the second year of appropriated funds, so we had a lot of money to spend. We were doing well. We got the first and second phases of some projects done--sewer, water, things of that nature. So I came with that box of projects that I wanted to get finished. The senior Members here said to me--you know, I was gung ho. They said, ``That is all right, son; you just relax. We will get to it next week, and if we do not get to it that week, we will get to it the week after that.'' It was hard for me to take. That has only been 20 years, and I remember it as if it were yesterday. I wanted to move. When I was Governor, I picked up the phone and the highway department would move, or I picked up the phone and somebody else would do something for me.…”