Political Quotes

“Thank you. Duty to country. The decision I'm going to make, is it according to the Constitution? Duty to others. Is the decision I'm going to make as a Member of Congress today in this job, you know, how does is it impact the people that I work for? What are the intended consequences? What are the unintended consequences? And, frankly, duty to self. Am I prepared to do my best? Those are values that--I learned those starting when I was age 11. One of the most important things that probably happened in my life was that I had a foster brother come live with my family at age 11. And when Mom and Dad brought Bob into our home, they had made a promise to him that he could continue in the scouting program--he was a couple years older than I--that he had been attending in a neighboring valley. And, frankly, as a younger brother, I got to tag along. And I'd have to say that was probably one of the most important things that ever happened to me. I'm so thankful for that opportunity, and it has just made just a tremendous difference in my life. I want to share just from 2009, in terms of the service to the Nation of scouting. What has scouting been? And just most recently, we're celebrating 100 years. But just this past year, there has been 1,634,715 boys, ages 7 to 10, in Cub Scouts in this Nation. What a number. Amazing. Of boys 11 to 17, so that would be Boy Scout age or what we call Varsity Scouts, a parallel program, 897,868 boys involved in that program.…”