Political Quotes

“I have had the good fortune of serving in Congress for more than three decades with a good man, the senior Senator from Montana Max Baucus. We hope to schedule a vote sometime this afternoon on his confirmation to be our Nation's Ambassador to China. Senator Baucus has served in the Senate for a long time. At the end of this year, he will have served 36 years. Prior to that, he served in the House of Representatives for 4 years. Prior to that, he served a term in the Montana State legislature. He has his undergraduate and law degree from Stanford. He is an extremely smart person and is certainly versed on what goes on in the Congress. After he received his law degree from Stanford, he worked as an attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission and entered private practice in Missoula after that. His mentor, and the person who got him interested in politics, was Mike Mansfield. I didn't know him--I shouldn't say I didn't know him. He attended the prayer breakfast, and I met him on a number of occasions at our Wednesday prayer breakfast. He was a very quiet man, and that is what everybody says about him. He was the worst guest in the world to interview on a Sunday show because he wouldn't say anything. He would just answer yes or no. He was well respected in the Senate by Democrats and Republicans. I heard Senator Baucus tell the story many times about how Mike Mansfield suggested that he go into politics. Well, he did do that.…”