Political Quotes

“Senator Ensign and I hold, every Thursday, in a room right off the Chamber, in the Johnson Room, the LBJ Room, a breakfast where we have Nevadans come and visit with us. Today it was a larger crowd than we usually have because school is out. Even if it were not a larger crowd, there were a lot more kids there. One of the young people who was there is Anna Ressell. Anna is from Sparks, NV. She came to see me the day before yesterday with some other Nevada girls because she is a diabetic. She was there today with all of her family--a wonderful child. She is 13 years old. During her lifetime, this young lady has had 20,000 finger pokes, 35,000 injections. She is a diabetic, I repeat. Think about that. When we go to the doctor and they draw blood or give you a shot, we always wince because it hurts. We try to have a backbone of steel, but it hurts. This young lady has had 20,000 finger pokes to determine what her blood sugar levels are and 35,000 injections. That is why it is so sad, when we see this young girl with her family, that that hope has been taken away. She came here with these other girls to talk about the need for stem cell research. The President, yesterday, in his message to the Senate, snuffed out hope for tens of thousands of people in Nevada, people such as Anna and many others suffering from Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, spinal cord injuries--millions of Americans. Their hope was snuffed out with the President vetoing this bill. It is too bad.…”