Political Quotes

“Right. So that is sort of the frustrating thing for me. We see these challenges mounting up all around us and we still do nothing. It reminds me of this crazy story my brother told me when I was a young guy. I think originally it was a story from Lou Holtz. You will appreciate this, because if you are in it, doing nothing is not an option. This is a story of a very wealthy man who had no heirs to leave his money to. So he lined up a whole bunch of young strapping guys in front of his big old Olympic-sized pool with a cover over it and said: OK, anybody who can swim across this pool gets my inheritance. You are the ones. So all these young men got ready to jump across the pool, and he pushed the button, the pool cover opened, and there in the water were snakes and alligators and piranhas, and a very mean, vicious- looking duck. Basically he waited there, and all the men now backed off and didn't do anything. He finally had enough of it and said: Aw, shucks, and turned around. But just as he walked away, thinking none of those young men were going to be up to the challenge, he hears this big splash. He turns around and he sees navigating across the pool the youngest of all the men--a guy the age of Senator Schatz--navigating through this water and battling alligators, pushing back the poisonous snakes, kicking back piranhas, dodging that vicious-looking duck, working his way over, and heaving himself onto the other end of the pool.…”