Political Quotes

“in January of this year, before the Senate resumed its session, I spent some time here in Washington, DC, sitting in the court system, watching the superior court, watching cases, watching judges, and watching defendants. I also visited some inner city schools, and visited some welfare offices here in the District of Columbia. The reason I did that is that those of us who come from rural areas understand rural America, and we must live in a city in order to serve in the U.S. Senate. So we are in both places. But although we live here and work here during the week, often we do not know very much about what is happening in the city; especially in the Nation's Capital. One of the high schools I visited was just blocks from this building--Eastern High, a wonderful school with a principal for whom I have great respect. I visited the school and sat in the classrooms, talked to teachers, talked to students, asked students about their lives, many of whom come from low-income housing projects and, I am sure, have a fairly difficult life. Last week, at Eastern High School, there was a shooting inside the school down in the cafeteria where I had visited. Apparently, one young man bumped another young man, and because of that bumping, a pistol was pulled and, I believe, four shots were fired, and the young man was sent to the hospital in critical condition.”