Vernon Ehlers: “I want to rise and express my appreciation for this country and for this institution. We all have experienced elections.…”

“I want to rise and express my appreciation for this country and for this institution. We all have experienced elections. What is interesting is that throughout the Nation, the elections have been remarkably close in many cases. I am proud of that, because I would not want to live in a country where we have a dictator that gets 99 percent of the vote in a rigged election. We are in a country where we present our ideas and ourselves to the country and to its people, and those people, on the basis of what we say and what we do, elect us. That is precisely the way the system is supposed to work. That is what the founders of this Nation wanted, and that is what they put in place 225 years ago. In addition to that, yesterday we celebrated Veteran's Day and recognized all those who have given the supreme sacrifice and those who have sacrificed parts of their lives to the service of this country. I am so proud to be an American. I am so very, very proud of our country, and I am delighted to be an American.”