Political Quotes

“Do you see this trophy before us? We've been on this House floor many times to celebrate baseball victories, football victories, or, I should say, baseball debacles in our case. But we celebrate a lot of things, also golf. I want to point out that we had a wonderful experience last week, Thursday night, with the Washington Kastles, who are seated up in the Members' gallery. We had a wonderful bipartisan game of tennis between, obviously, the Members, Republican and Democrat intermixed, as well as members of the media. I'm pleased to report to you that there were two teams, the Stars and the Stripes. My colleagues here, Mr. Watt, Ms. Edwards, and Shelley Moore Capito, were on the Stripes, and I'll introduce the Stars team in a moment. Mr. Bishop will do that. We had a wonderful game. We should also let you know, too, that members of the media played. I should let you know that part of Stripes' team included David Gregory of ``Meet the Press.'' He's a bigger problem on the tennis court than he is in an interview on ``Meet the Press.'' I also want you to know he's got a big serve. You've got to watch him. Our coach was Leander Paes, who's seated in the gallery, a professional. Our team also included former Senator John Breaux; Shelley Moore Capito, a Division I player from Duke. Did I say, ``Go Lehigh''? That's basketball. Sorry.…”