Political Quotes

“on the next vote cast, we are going to vote on the Isakson amendment, and then we will vote on the Salazar amendment. On the Salazar vote, the distinguished senior Senator from the State of Michigan, Carl Levin, will cast his 10,000th vote. It is very difficult in a short period of time, or a long period of time, to convey to the American people and to this Senate the personality of Carl Levin. I have had the good fortune of serving in Congress now for more than two decades. Prior to that, I had the good fortune of representing the State of Nevada in other positions in government. Carl Levin is a unique individual. I have never served with anyone whom I had greater respect for his ability to understand an issue. There are so many instances. I can look at the last time we did the Defense authorization bill. We worked very hard to get 45 Democratic Senators to have an amendment that we could agree on that we would put forward our position on the intractable war in Iraq, led by Carl Levin. In numerous meetings we held in my office, we came up with an amendment. He would come back each time with his handwritten notes that this needed to be changed or that needed to be changed. To show his integrity and how people feel about him on both sides of the aisle, when we finished our difficult work, he called me within an hour and said: Would you mind if I discussed this with Senator Warner? I said: Of course, not.…”