Political Quotes

“finally, to my dear friend and about my dear friend, the Senator from North Dakota. The task sadly falls to me to begin saying goodbye to Members of our caucus who will not be returning in the 116th Congress. This morning, I would like to begin with the junior Senator from North Dakota. Heidi Heitkamp had a childhood that sounds like it was ripped from the pages of a frontier epic. She grew up as one of seven kids born over 9 years in a house with three bedrooms, in a town with a population south of 100. Do the math. That means that around one-tenth of the town was Heitkamps. Inside the household, the lack of space meant that Heidi's room was also her brother's room and also the laundry room. According to her sisters, the presence of a laundry machine had almost no effect on her. She read and read, and rarely, if ever, did she participate in the washing or folding of the Heitkamp laundry. Her siblings didn't seem to mind, at least not too much. As Julie Heitkamp said about growing up with Heidi, ``She was so good . . . it was annoying.'' It turned out that the bookworm from a small town in North Dakota was destined for great things. When she worked for Senator Kent Conrad, the outstanding Democrat from North Dakota, he realized the same goodness in Heidi her sisters recognized, and he encouraged her to run for State auditor at the age of 28.…”