Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today I wish to honor the life of Whitney Elizabeth Houston who passed away on Saturday, February 11, 2012. Whitney Houston was a shining star born in the great city of Newark, NJ, whose life will be celebrated locally and globally by her family and friends. Whitney followed in the footsteps of her mother and began performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where her first solo performance was ``Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah.'' Later she became the first woman of color to grace the cover of Seventeen Magazine and was also featured in layouts in the pages of Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Young Miss. In 1983, Clive Davis, head of Arista Records, helped start Whitney's recording career, and she went on to begin her meteoric rise to fame, with Rolling Stone praising her as ``one of the most exciting new voices in years,'' while the New York Times called her debut, self- titled album ``an impressive, musically conservative showcase for an exceptional vocal talent.'' In 1986, a year after the initial release of her debut album, Whitney topped the Billboard 200 albums chart and stayed there for 14 weeks with the final single, ``Greatest Love of All,'' which became one of her biggest hits. The album became the first album by a female to yield three No. 1 hits.…”