Political Quotes

“I wish to speak about an issue that is--to say it is unfinished business is an understatement. The fact that we are standing here in the fall of 2016 and the Congress of the United States hasn't fulfilled its promise to coal miners is really an insult not only to coal miners who spent a lot of years in the mines in a lot of States, mine and other States, but it is also an insult to the country because their government--our government--made a promise to them more than a generation ago. Some people may remember the book ``The Red Badge of Courage.'' That was written by Stephen Crane, a great novelist who didn't even make it to the age of 30. He died in his late twenties. Stephen Crane is known for being a great novelist and known for writing ``The Red Badge of Courage,'' but one of the most compelling accounts he ever wrote or anyone has ever written about the dangers and horrors of a particular line of work was Stephen Crane's essay, just before the turn of the last century, about a coal mine in my hometown of Scranton. The name of the article published in Collier's magazine was ``In the Depths of the Coal Mine.'' I will not of course read all of it and recite major portions of it, but suffice it to say that Stephen Crane, a great novelist, went into a coal mine and reported what he saw there, not as a work of fiction but as a work of the harsh realities in nonfiction of what the miners were facing.…”