Political Quotes

“I rise today, as we all are, to recognize a marvelous person in Claire McCaskill. I am going to go back to 2006, when Claire was running for the U.S. Senate and I was too. The first time I saw Claire McCaskill on TV was on C-SPAN. She was in a debate. I thought to myself: My, oh my. This lady has skills--because it is something I do, I study people who are good and I try to steal as much as I can from them and there was plenty to steal in her ability to get to the truth. Then, Claire and Jim Webb and I all won close elections in 2006 and showed up in this body. Those of you who know Webb, Webb was maybe the most intense person I ever have met in my life--an incredible human being in his own right--and I became good friends with Jim. Claire, I can't tell you the first time we met, but I can tell you when we met, it was like we had known one another our whole lives. Claire had this ability to instill--and still has this ability. I want to talk in the future, not in the past. Claire has the ability to welcome you and make you feel as good about yourself as you feel about her. We got to be fast friends. She and Joseph are Sharla and my best friends in this body. In fact, when I got on the train a few weeks ago--and I probably shouldn't have done this, but it just happened--I happened to get on the train with Senator-elect Hawley. I didn't know him. I never met him. I never looked at the debates this time around when I was campaigning.…”