Political Quotes

“today I come to the floor shaken and deeply saddened, as we all are, by the loss of our colleague, my good friend and ally, the senior Senator from New Jersey, Senator Frank Lautenberg. When I think of Senator Lautenberg, I think of the word ``tenacity.'' Frank Lautenberg was tenacious. When he had a setback, he always got right back into the game. He was as tenacious in life as he was here in the Senate, where that tenacity paid off for the people of New Jersey and for the Nation. When he had a setback with cancer, he did not let himself take 1 minute more than he had to before he got back up and went right back at it. I will always remember his tenacity, a strength of will, and an unshakable resolve that helped him in his own life and in making life better for others. Frank Lautenberg loved the Senate. He loved his job and the people who elected him time and time again--five times, in fact; the longest serving Senator for the State of New Jersey--people he cared deeply about: working families, seniors, single moms, and the hard-working folks who trusted him always to be on their side, and he was. He was a man for New Jersey, a man for his time--one of the ``greatest generation,'' the last in the Senate to have served in World War II. His story was a quintessential American story. His father Sam worked in the silk mills of Paterson, NJ. He sold coal, he farmed, and he once ran a tavern.…”