Political Quotes

“I advised my colleagues, Senator Stevens and Senator Inouye, that I have been very patient here, but I think it would be to their interest if they went back to their offices and spent the afternoon doing something more profitable. I am going to talk here for as long as I am able to do so, which may take 4 or 5 hours. I may get tired after that. But I have been over here. I told my friends I would not object to the defense appropriations bill being brought up, which I will not do. But I have been listening to what has gone on here this afternoon, and I think that we should talk about things that are important to talk about. I have had the good fortune, since I came to the Senate, to be able to serve on the Appropriations Committee with my friend from Alaska, the senior Senator from Alaska, and the senior Senator from Hawaii. I have only the greatest respect for them and the work that they have done all the time I have served with them on the Appropriations Committee.”