Political Quotes

“with this last vote, the senior Senator from Montana, Max Baucus, casts his 10,000th vote. He has entered into very good company having cast his 10,000th vote. Senator Sarbanes, Senator Lugar, and Senator Hatch are in the company with him. I applaud and congratulate my friend, Max Baucus. He has served a lifetime representing the people of the State of Montana. He was elected to the Montana State Legislature in 1973, the House of Representatives of the United States the next year, in 1978 elected to the Senate. He has a compelling background. He was raised on a ranch near Helena, MT. One of the fascinating things that speaks of Senator Baucus's personality, he did not know as a young man what he wanted to do. So to get his thoughts together and his head on straight, as he said, he decided he would travel the world. And he did that, by himself, hitchhiking and catching rides, and when he had a few dollars, he would catch some type of public transportation. He traveled the world over. He got very sick on an occasion or two drinking water that was not like water in Helena, MT. I repeat, it speaks of who Max Baucus is. He has an outstanding education. He was educated in one of the finest university's in the world, Stanford, for both his undergraduate work and for his law degree. When I was elected to the Senate, the first person to reach out to me socially was Max Baucus. He invited me to his home, where I met his lovely wife Wanda.…”