Political Quotes

“I remind the Senator, when you were the Democratic leader, you allowed this young freshman Senator to go to the 200th anniversary of the Great Compromise in Philadelphia. It was a wonderful experience to do the reenactment. You brought back many memories. I say to my friend, the distinguished Senator from West Virginia, presently many people in America are thinking about the Founding Fathers. The reason they are doing that is because of the great work David McCullough has written about John Adams, the forgotten President. It is on the best seller list. It is a straight history book, very well written. I still have about 70 or 80 pages to go. But as I said, he is a man to whom we have not, until now, paid much attention. He was the first Vice President, the person who became our second President. He was involved from the very beginning with the very difficult decisions made by this country. He spent 7 years of his life in Europe. It is a wonderful story. Truth is stranger than fiction.”