Jacob Frey

We ask not for acquiescence or assent, but for peace. The kind of peace that we seek here in the coming days, it must propel us forward to a better version of our city, to a better version of ourselves.

When you hear someone calling for help you are supposed to help.

What we saw was horrible, completely and utterly messed up. We watched as a white officer pressed his knee into the neck of a black man.

Barbara, thank you for all of the hard work you have put in. We have had many, many people working on this. This is an absolute great way to explain to your kids in terms of doing something. If you are going to do it, make sure you are…

Some of my family is here, and I want to thank them. I am especially pleased to have my good friend and former chief of staff, Oscar Juarez, and his wife, Nancy, here representing those who made our congressional office a happy and…

Thank you, Madam President. Thank you very much. I don't know who got this idea and where those 17 years go, but I guess we are going right ahead with the 18th. The dinner is our biggest fundraising event, and it reaches out to a whole…

it was truly a great event, and, Bob, you graced us all with being there, and your remarks were incredibly touching. And for those of you who missed it, you really missed a wonderful, wonderful evening. This was the seventh dinner. We have…

The Congress on Campus program is not government funded. In order to help institutionalize the program, we held our first annual Statesmanship Award Dinner at the Willard Hotel on February 10, 1998. The dinner was highlighted by an award…

One of the programs that we have been developing over the past year would periodically bring together legislators from the Congress, the German Bundestag and the Japanese Diet. Given the importance of these three countries, which account…

Another one of our activities is that we are the secretary to the congressional study group in Germany composed of 130 sitting Members of the House. It is a bipartisan group and, obviously, it works on trying to understand better what is…

there are no term limits on public service. The reason we are here today and why we have approximately 600 Members is, each of us believes that serving our country is a lifetime job. When we were sworn in, we did not take an oath to a…

As you can see, we have taken on a lot of tasks and have a great deal of involvement, e-mail, we are getting a chat room, and we are trying to catch up with the modern times. I would like to recognize the Honorable Robert Whan…

One of the things we have decided to do is hold a meeting each year in November in California alternating between Northern and Southern California. Our first California meeting in Northern California was hosted by a former member…

I might add as the result of this and going to the campuses, we have been asked to write a book about the Congress from a personal standpoint... There have been books on Congress, but there has never been a book on various aspects of…

The crown jewel of what we do really is working with young people. I think that probably gives each of us the most satisfaction of anything we do, the chance to go to college communities to talk with young people, to spend 2, 2 rac{1}{2}…

this concludes our 27th annual report to the Congress by the United States Association of Former Members of Congress. I think I said earlier, and I truly believe it, that being a Member of this body was a privilege. It was the best thing…