Political Quotes

“Last night, several hundred people gathered to wish Sam Farr farewell to his congressional career, celebrating a half century of public service. Sam started in the Peace Corps, volunteering in Colombia in the sixties. He was active as a local government official, and in the California State legislature and finally 23 years in Congress. He came by his calling honestly. He was born on the Fourth of July. Son of Fred Farr, a State senator and a Johnson administration official, Sam has been dedicated to the widest range of issues of anybody I have worked with in my years in Congress. He has worked on issues of livable communities, transportation, land use planning, and healthy agriculture. He took very seriously the fact that he represented California's ``salad bowl.'' He has been a leader in marijuana reform, with the famous Farr-Rohrabacher amendment slapping the Federal Government's hands back from interfering with medical marijuana. You know, there is a movie from 1983 with Woody Allen. In ``Zelig,'' this kind of nebbish chameleon-like person showed up everywhere in all of these important events in the twenties and thirties. Well, Sam has sort of that characterization. Although, unlike a nebbish or chameleon, Sam was bold, he was infectious, he was warm, but he was everywhere in the course of the last 20 years. Just this last year alone, we saw the unprecedented oceans protections that were implemented by the Obama administration.…”