Political Quotes

“Mr. President, as Ohio's junior Senator, I wish to add my remarks, as well as I am able, to the comments of Senator Voinovich. He didn't talk much about himself and his career, and I will do that for a moment. In his almost 50 years of public service, he always has been his own man, whether as a State legislator, county auditor, a county commissioner of Cuyahoga County, Lieutenant Governor, as mayor of Cleveland, Governor of Ohio, and now his 12 years in the Senate. He has always been his own man. He was rewarded in some sense when, as a 1958 graduate of Ohio University, the school created the Voinovich School of Leadership in Public Affairs. It is not often that a State university or any public entity names something after someone still in office, particularly something as prestigious as the Voinovich School of Leadership. I have visited it many times. There are always stimulating discussions that are uplifting to the public discourse. I thank Senator Voinovich for that. No matter how high George Voinovich rose, he always lived with his wife Janet and his children and grandchildren nearby in Collinwood, OH, in the same house, the same neighborhood in Cleveland, never forgetting where he came from. That tells me a lot about him as a public official. He likes to say, reflecting on our State's tremendous potential, ``the rust is off the belt,'' as people used to refer to Cleveland as the rust belt but now see it as so much more.…”