Political Quotes

“Thank you, Congressman Garamendi. You are such a rare and talented Member. I thank the people of California for sending you here. You serve them every day of the week, 7 days a week--24/7. It is a privilege to appear with you tonight and also with Congressman Paul Tonko, one of our most talented Members from upstate New York--a region like my own that has just been battered by the global economy and the outsourcing of jobs. We all are just honored to serve in this Congress, and we respect it and its history and its potential. Mr. Speaker, as I travel my own district and State, I am finding I have to reassure people. Anytime there is a change, I guess, in public life, people need to be bolstered that everything is going to be okay. We are here to be that squad and to say to the American people that they have power, too, and that it isn't just the super rich of this country or the billionaire class. We can label them ``wealth power.'' And that has power; yes, it does. Sometimes extraordinary power. But there is also ``people power.'' I consider myself having been lifted here by people power over many years, and I appreciate the people of my region for allowing me to serve our country and to learn every day, to learn from them, to learn how to make the instruments of the Nation work better for them. There is also ``spiritual power.'' I am amazed at how people's spiritual groundings help them through difficult situations and transitions.…”