Political Quotes

“why would I, the Democratic leader of the Senate, stand to offer effusive praise for my Republican colleague, the Senator from New Mexico, Pete Domenici? The reason is, I know him. He is my friend. Pete Domenici and I have worked on a subcommittee that is so important to this country, Energy and Water. My entire tenure in the Senate has been with him. The last many years Senator Domenici and I have worked as ranking member and chair. Whoever controls the Senate, Democrat or Republican, the person whose party is controlling becomes the chairman, the member of the other party becomes the ranking member of that committee. It doesn't matter to Pete Domenici or Harry Reid, as it relates to that subcommittee, which is the party in power because we have worked as partners on that subcommittee. We have done some tremendously important things for this country, not only in funding important projects but changing policy. I like Pete Domenici for a number of reasons. I admire Pete Domenici for a number of reasons. As a boy, I wanted more than anything else to be a baseball player. I wanted to be a good baseball player. In my child's mind, I figured I could be. But as I got older, I didn't run very fast. I wasn't as strong as I thought I was, so my baseball career was not much to write home about. Pete Domenici's is. Pete Domenici was a pitcher.…”