Political Quotes

“I rise, as my colleague from Alaska just did so eloquently, to pay tribute to our colleague and our friend, Senator John McCain. I guess I have to start with a question: Where do I begin? Where does anyone begin after all we have heard these last number of days and will continue to hear in the days ahead when we pay tribute, in a more formal way in the next few days, here in Washington, in Arizona, and around the world? John McCain lived to serve his country. His life could be best described in many words, but three come to mind: courage, commitment, and character. There is a line attributed to Abraham Lincoln in which he said: In the end, it is not the years in one's life that count; it is the life in those years. It is a loose translation, not exact. Yet, when you consider the life in those years in the context of John McCain, what a life it was. He was a remarkable human being who was able to rise above the horror of being a captive and of being tortured in order to achieve so much in his life after that in the Navy, as an elected official, as a Presidential candidate, and, of course, most especially, as a leader. John McCain demonstrated a kind of courage that most people cannot even begin to imagine--5\1/2\ years spent in an enemy prison camp in North Vietnam. I was thinking, as it was recounted this week, that 5\1/ 2\ years is just a little less than a Senate term that he spent as a captive.…”