Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Florida for yielding to me. I rise in support of his resolution. Let me start by thanking my colleague and friend from New York (Steve Israel) for his hard work on this measure. Mr. Speaker, on July 2, a light went out of this world. Elie Wiesel was a champion of human rights, peace, and Holocaust remembrance. And though he is gone, his life and work and message are seared on our collective conscience. Born in Romania in 1928, he survived the Sighet ghetto, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald. He was inmate number A-7713, and his number was tattooed on his arm. His mother and sister died in death camps. When I was a little boy growing up in the Bronx, we had many people who were Holocaust survivors, and they had tattoos all over their arms, on the other side of their wrists. I remember that very, very vividly, and it is something that has been seared into my memory through the years. When Wiesel was liberated by the United States in 1945, he moved to France and then immigrated to America. {time} 1430 In 1955, while living in France, he wrote ``Night,'' the story of his experience with his father in the Nazi death camps, and this book became the foundation of Holocaust literature. I would advise everyone to read this book. He was one of the first to put pen to paper to chronicle his own view of the darkest chapter in human history. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.…”