Political Quotes

“just by chance last night I was reading a book and it included a speech given by John McCain, our fellow Senator. What Senator McCain talked about was some of his experiences in the prison camp in Vietnam where a man by the name of Mike Christian had spent an inordinate amount of time sewing on the inside of the pajama- like outfit they gave him to wear, and he put a flag inside his jacket--his shirt. This jacket was discovered, the flag was discovered by the prison officials, and he was beaten really very much. He was beaten severely. Of course, they ripped the flag out of his coat. We take for granted saluting the flag. We come in here and we do it every morning. By rote, we stand and do it. I am not too sure that we shouldn't think a little bit more about what we are doing when we salute the flag. I am going to bring that excerpt from home and I am going to submit it for publication in the Congressional Record for everybody to see, about people who have been--for example, Senator McCain was in prison for 5\1/2\ years. As we know, he was, on many different occasions, tortured. So when John McCain salutes the flag and when Mike Christian, a fellow pilot--he was actually a navigator on an airplane--salute the flag, it means a lot to them, and we should encapsulate that when we think about saluting the flag. I will submit that excerpt for the Record tomorrow. I read that last night, late.…”