Political Quotes

“I thank Representative Chabot for organizing this Special Order tonight so that we could pay tribute to our colleague, Steve LaTourette. And Jennifer, I hope that you and the children are being comforted by the words that you are hearing here tonight. I want to associate myself with all the comments that I have been able to hear tonight about Steve. He truly was a dedicated public servant and a champion for his constituents in Ohio for 18 years. As we mourn the loss of Steve, we remember a Representative who stood for what is right and who fought on behalf of what makes America great. I had the privilege of standing in the back corner a lot of times with Steve, and I can certainly testify to his quick-wittedness, his sense of humor, but also his ability to discern, again, the heart of the matter, as has been mentioned here. I learned a great deal from Steve by listening to him. He was a man of great principle. And as I thought tonight about coming here and sharing a few comments to pay tribute to Steve, the poem by John Donne, ``For Whom the Bell Tolls,'' kept coming back to me. So I am going to share that poem tonight because I do think that it epitomizes how we should think about Steve and his presence here and his absence. ``No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.…”