Political Quotes

“I want to talk this morning about Joe Lieberman. The very modest apartment, with no hot water, where Joseph Lieberman was raised has long since been demolished, but the values he learned in that little apartment--in the flat above his grandparents' house--are still there. They are the same values of devotion and public service that have driven him not only to overcome humble beginnings but to serve the country for 24 years here in the U.S. Senate. Two years ago, on the day he announced his retirement from the Senate, Joe Lieberman described his rise from cold-water flat to Congress as follows: My four grandparents . . . came to America seeking freedom and they found it. They came to America hoping for opportunities and they got them. But even they could not have dreamed that their grandson would end up a U.S. Senator. Joe was always a natural-born leader. He was president of his high school graduating class. He got undergraduate and law degrees from Yale--one of the most prestigious universities in the world--where he was chairman of the Yale Daily News. He was a civil rights activist early on as a young man. He was inspired, as many of us were, by the words of John Kennedy. Joe defeated an incumbent to win a seat in the Connecticut State Senate, where he served for 10 years, including 6 as the majority leader of the Connecticut State Legislature. After returning to private practice for 2 years, he served as the first full-time Connecticut attorney general.…”