Political Quotes

“the Republican leader and I don't agree on everything, but we do agree on some. There is one thing no one can dispute we agree on, and that is our love of baseball. We both love baseball season. It gives us an opportunity, when we go home after working here, to turn on the TV and watch a few innings of a baseball game. For some people, baseball is a very slow, boring opportunity to watch people moving slowly, but Senator McConnell and I love it. We talk about baseball. We love the Nationals. He and I have great affection for the Nationals because of Bryce Harper, a Las Vegas athlete. The reason I mention that is because today, Nevada's greatest baseball hero--in fact, one of the greatest baseball heroes not of Nevada but of all time--was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Greg Maddux is an extremely nice man--a man of humility. I have gone out to dinner with him and his lovely wife a few times. I know his brother well, who was also a professional baseball player, and he would be the first to say when he was playing baseball and today about how average he was: I am not a great athlete. But he is one of the best of all time. He started his career with the Chicago Cubs and went on to win 355 professional Major League Baseball games and four consecutive Cy Young awards. Today he received almost 98 percent of all votes cast--the second highest tally in the history of Hall of Fame voting.…”