Political Quotes

“I know my friend, the distinguished Senator from Vermont, has been waiting, and so I will be very quick with the statement that I am going to give. Remembering Jim Santini Mr. President, today Nevada lost a historic figure. This morning former U.S. Congressman Jim Santini of Nevada passed away. He was a remarkably good person--a tremendous person who understood Nevada so well. He was a native Nevadan, born in Reno. He came from a real heritage that caused him to love his State of Nevada. His grandfather, Walter E. Clark, was the longest serving president at the University of Nevada. His uncle is a famous writer--a really celebrated author--Walter Van Tillburg Clark. It has been a long time, but what a great writer. His most famous work was ``The Ox-Bow Incident.'' I read it again a few years ago. It was made into a movie, which I watched again. It was considered by most to be the most--actually, the first modern Western novel. So Jim Santini breathed what Nevada was all about. He knew the State extremely well. He graduated from the University of Nevada--the same school where his grandfather was the president. He became close friends with former Senator Richard Bryan of Nevada, a two-term Governor and a striking figure in his own right. They were inseparable friends. They were in college together. They went to the same law school--Hastings Law School in San Francisco. Jim graduated from law school in 1962.…”