Political Quotes

“I also rise to commend my new colleague of less than a year on his maiden speech, and I rise as the senior-most Republican on the floor at this time to congratulate him on behalf of my colleagues on the Republican side. Andy Kim is going to cast votes that will be considered way further to the left than those that I will cast. There will be ratings that will rate him 100 percent and probably give me a zero, and on the conservative ratings, it will be close to the same in the other direction. But having watched him, having listened to him, having attended Senate Prayer Breakfasts with Andy Kim over the past few months, I know that he is someone whose heart is good and who will work with every Senator and every Member of the House to advance this Nation. I am glad that Senator Andy Kim mentioned 'E pluribus unum,' and I have learned a history lesson. I had never gone back to Cicero, but I found it interesting that Senator Kim went back and found that the verb there that allowed many to become one was 'love' in the view of Cicero. And it reminded me of perhaps a passage that he might have heard or read from the New Testament in some of our Prayer Breakfasts, and that is when Jesus of Nazareth was asked by the experts, what was the greatest commandment? And Jesus answered: You should love your God with all your heart and soul and might; this is the first and great commandment. But the second is alike unto it.…”