Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Louisville. Mr. Speaker, when I heard of the greatest of all time's passing, my heart was filled and heavy because he was very significant in my life. When you just think of him--and I got to meet him first as a young boy. I was about 10 years old. My dad was a professional boxer. He is one of 49, one of 49 individuals to get knocked out by Rocky Marciano. But that also brought him into the area where he got to know many of the boxers in training, et cetera. He would train in the same gym in New York where Sugar Ray Robinson was, and where Bundini and Youngblood were, who were always in Ali's corner. So I got to see Ali, this Cassius Clay train at an early age, and fell in love with him immediately. Number one what you could do when you saw Muhammad Ali, at that time you saw a young man who was confident. And yes, as I hear my colleagues talking about his athletic ability and skills, he had all of that. But what I would like to talk about briefly tonight, what was the highest of esteem for Muhammad Ali was his brain. There is nothing that Ali did that he didn't think about. Everything that he did, there was a reason for it. When he first saw this wrestler and how people hated him, this George guy, but he saw how all the people were coming to watch and paying all of their money because they were talking, he was talking. He said here's a good way to promote myself and to make sure that he could make some money, and so he did that.…”