Political Quotes

“I rise for two purposes. One is to speak for a couple minutes about today's anniversary of D-day and then also to talk about a Pennsylvanian who lost his life in Iraq and was this week awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. I, first, wish to speak about D-day. We observe this anniversary today, 64 years, but we have to think today about how we do that. We know what happened on D-day. For so many Americans, prior to just a number of years ago, it was a piece of history we read about in the history books. We learned a bit about it in school, but for a new generation of Americans, D-day has meant what we saw in the movie 'Saving Private Ryan.' Thank goodness for that film because it captured so much of the horror, so much of the sacrifice and the valor of our troops. So we remember those Americans who gave their lives that day to save the world--literally to save the world from the horror that could have befallen the world if the axis powers were successful, and if D-day did not go as well as it did, they might have been successful.”