Political Quotes

“the hour of 2:30 having arrived, it is my honor and my pleasure to rise to honor a patriot, a pioneer, and now the longest serving woman in the Congress of the United States ever, and that is the senior Senator from Maryland Barbara Mikulski. Barbara and I served together in the House, and we came to the Senate together in 1986. I remember that day so well, when we had our first appearance in the Senate as new Senators. It was quite a moving event for me. But one of the events I remember about that day is the presentation of Senator Mikulski. We all said a word or two, and everything we said will be long forgotten. But what Barbara Mikulski said, in the way she has of saying things, will not be forgotten. Here is this woman who is not even as tall as my wife, who is 5 feet tall, but she said, ``I slam-dunked Linda Chavez,'' her opponent. That said it all. That was the beginning of my working closely with this good woman. She has been a friend, an inspiration to me in so many different ways in the time we have served together. When we got on the Environment and Public Works Committee, she was here, and I was here. She was always ahead of me in seniority because of her longer service in the House. On the Appropriations Committee, for more than two decades, I was here, she was here. She was always one ahead of me. Barbara was the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right.…”