Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. President, for the recognition, and thank you also for your excellent tribute to Senator Mark Andrews and his amazing life of service to North Dakota and to our country. Also, thank you for switching places with me for a few minutes so I can spend some time remembering my friend and mentor and our predecessor. This COVID thing really kind of stinks, all in all. There are lots of things about COVID-19 that are awful, but one of the biggest things is so often, many people have been robbed of the opportunity to provide an appropriate sendoff to a hero, to the heroes whose lives are worthy of a more noble celebration than what social distancing and small crowds offer. As former Grand Forks Herald editor, publisher, and sometimes political commentator and observer, Mike Jacobs wrote in the Grand Forks Herald: ``Mark Andrews deserves better.'' I ask unanimous consent to have the Jacobs story printed in the Record, along with the official obituaries of both Mark and Mary Andrews There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Obituary for Mary Andrews Mary Andrews was born February 10, 1927 in Marshall, Missouri. She died peacefully on July 16, 2020 surrounded by family and friends, including her best friend and husband of seventy-one years, Mark Andrews. Mary was the only child and the light of the lives of George and Lucille Willming. They moved to Fargo in 1940 when Mary was in seventh grade.…”