Political Quotes

“Bob Torricelli is my friend. We came to Washington to serve in the House of Representatives together. We sat together in the same committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, in the House. We developed a friendship then, 20 years ago, that has remained. I feel so bad for my friend, Bob Torricelli. Mr. President, I cannot determine all he went through, but he went through enough that he dropped out of the Senate race. He did it because, for those of us who know him, the emotional toll was tremendous. Now, would it be better for the people of New Jersey to have no Senate race? The sitting Senator is out of the race. Would it be better that the people of New Jersey have no election, no choice? The paramount interest that the New Jersey Supreme Court determined was that the people of New Jersey should have a choice. Now, they heard that argument today, and they have already decided by a 7-to-0 vote. It was, as they say in basketball, a slam dunk.”