Political Quotes

“I support this legislation strongly. But I did have the privilege and do have the privilege of knowing Ambassador Foley, of knowing him as a colleague, of knowing him as the distinguished Speaker of this House, of knowing him as the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, and I felt I had to be here today to express my enormous admiration for this distinguished American. He as a Speaker, a Democratic Speaker, but a Speaker of the Whole House, was always very, very fair. This distinguished American treated those of us in the minority, when indeed Republicans in the minority, with fairness, with consideration. In fact, one of my Democratic friends some years ago when Speaker Foley was indeed in the Chair leaned over with a smile on his face and whispered to me, 'You know, one of the things, perhaps the only thing, that is wrong with Tom Foley is sometimes he is too bipartisan.' Well, of course the Speaker is the Speaker of the Whole House, and he was fulfilling his duties and his obligations, and he was fulfilling them with dignity, with intelligence and in the best tradition of the great speakers of this august body.”