Political Quotes

“English is today, as I speak, the language of America. In spite of the fact that in Nevada, we have the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains; in Las Vegas, the meadows. In one of our counties, White Pine County, 200 miles from Las Vegas, Ely, a longtime mining community, I can remember going there to the Slav festival and being taken to the graveyard because in the days of early Kennecott, they had a section in that graveyard for Greeks, for Slavs, for Italians. Today, as I speak, the language of America is English. Things have changed around the world. If a person wanted to join the Foreign Service, whether they were in England, the United States, or any country in South America, to be in the diplomatic corps of their country, they had to learn French. That was the language of diplomacy. Not anymore. It is English. The language used in diplomatic relations around the world is English. If I am a pilot and I am flying into National Airport, the air traffic controller is speaking English. If I am a pilot and am flying into Lima, Peru, the air traffic controller speaks English. If I am a pilot flying into Moscow, the air traffic controller in Moscow speaks English. The language of flying is English. It applies to every country in the world where they have an airport and they have air traffic controllers. English is the language, and my distinguished friend, the Senator from Oklahoma, knows that. He himself has flown around the world as a pilot.…”