Political Quotes

“I strongly support the Senate bill, S. 378, a bill to designate the Job Corps center located at 334 South Kedzie Avenue in Chicago as the Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps Center. The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Costello), the ranking member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, introduced the House companion bill, H.R. 2015, to honor the distinguished Senator from Illinois, Senator Paul Simon. He was born in 1928 in Eugene, Oregon. He attended the University of Oregon and Dana College in Blair, Nebraska. As a 19-year-old teenager, he became the Nation's youngest editor-publisher when he accepted a local Lions Club challenge to save the Troy Tribune in Troy, Illinois. Needless to say, he met and exceeded the challenge, and proceeded to establish a chain of 13 newspapers in southern and central Illinois. In 1954, he was elected to the Illinois House, and in 1962, he was elected to the Illinois Senate.”