Political Quotes

“I know we have a number of colleagues who want to speak. I will be very brief. I just want to start by saying how grateful we are for the service of Sherrod Brown in the U.S. Senate and the great work that he has done. He reminded us to make sure that we wore the canary pin. And for me, it has a special significance, even though I haven't been wearing it all these years, but I wanted to wear it today. But it is especially significant because I have ancestors who worked, of course, in the anthracite coal mines. But I think, in so many ways, it is emblematic of his service, that he never forgot where he came from, never forgot who sent him here, and you heard that throughout his remarks today about the work he has done on behalf of American working men and women and their families. When the history of the labor movement of the United States--if it were ever written, of course, it wouldn't be one book. It would be a multivolume work by some scholar, maybe sometime in the future. But whenever that complete and comprehensive history is written, there will be a significant portion of that history written about the work of Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio because no one that I am aware of that has served in this body has done more for workers in the time he has been in the Senate.…”