Political Quotes

“I want to make an observation here because I have been serving for quite some time in the U.S. Senate, and a lot of the things that are said on the Senate floor are not really all that significant, and yet the Members who are delivering messages believe they are or they wouldn't be doing it. This is what it is all about. This is a deliberative body. Some things are maybe not all that significant, but what I am about to say is significant, so I would like to have the attention of anyone who wants to know that in the midst of all of the problems that we are facing now, some good things are happening. I want to mention something that is significant that I don't think you have thought of, I say to the Presiding Officer; that is, tomorrow is the 354th day of the year, and that is very significant. That is December 19. People have not stopped to realize the significant things that have happened on December 19 throughout our history and the history of the world, going all the way back to December 19 of the year 1154. That is when Henry II became King of England. We haven't really thought about what that means to us today, but we will before long. In 1843, December 19, Charles Dickens wrote ``A Christmas Carol.'' That is the most watched, listened to, and sung event every Christmas. And it has been for all that time. In 1932, December 19, the British Broadcasting Corporation--that is the BBC; we are all familiar with that--but that is when it started.…”