Political Quotes

“parting really is sweet sorrow. Mr. President, thank you very much for being here today honoring not only Senator Frist, our majority leader, but the entire Senate. On the surface, some may ask how the Senate and the operating room are the same. What do they have in common? Senator Frist has shown us that helping people is what he did as a doctor and what he has done as a Senator. Serving others is a trait as we have observed by knowing this good man is that he learned from his family. His father was also a doctor. As a young man he was obviously academically very talented. He wanted to follow in his father's footsteps. He went to Princeton University, which shows that he is someone who is talented academically and socially. He graduated from that great American learning institution and decided he was going to go to Harvard, which speaks well, again, of his intellect and, of course, his ability to get along with people. His surgical training came at Massachusetts General Hospital and Southhampton General Hospital in England. Senator Frist was a pioneer, but he learned his transplant surgery from the pioneer. I have heard Bill Frist talk about Norman Shumway on many occasions--the first doctor to perform a successful heart transplant in the U.S. Senator Frist--then Dr. Frist--started Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Heart and Lung Transplant Center.”