Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I was over in my office and I could not hardly believe what I was hearing when I was listening over there, so I decided to come over and add my 2 cents to the rest of the discussion. Mr. Chairman, as one who has been a pet owner almost all of my life, when I was growing up with dogs and cats and pigeons and everything else you can think of, and as one when we had our children, we had dogs and cats and things like that. Mr. Chairman, I am getting to the point where I am 65. I am getting elderly. When I go home tonight, I have got a cat there. Old Bear has been with me for 16 years. Now, if I happen to be in a senior citizens complex someplace, I probably could not have old Bear. Old Bear would have to be put out and go to a new home and it would probably kill him. Or Bear would probably have to end up in a pond and that would be the end of him. Mr. Chairman, I get a lot of solace in Bear. I will be honest, Bear comes up to me and when I go home and open up that door tonight after all of this silly discussion on whether people should have pets, because I think there is no reason for them to not have pets, when I open that door Bear is going to be upstairs. But as soon as I open that door, Bear comes running and Bear will be at that door to greet me.”