Political Quotes

“I thank you for yielding. I want to take a moment to talk about an important key member of the Scouting team, and that is sponsoring organizations, from all over. Every Scouting unit has a community partner called a sponsoring organization. And they are churches, fire departments, Lions clubs, Rotary, Salvation Army. I mean, there are just an endless list of organizations who step forward. In becoming a partner, they sponsor these Scouting units. And it seems fitting, as we pay tribute to the 100th anniversary of Scouting, to say ``thank you'' to those community partners. They play such an important role in making sure that the units, the Scouting units have qualified leadership, that they usually provide a place for them to meet, they provide them the support they need to have within the community. So ``thank you'' to certainly our sponsoring organizations within Scouting. And, finally, just touch on the things that Scouting provides in a real tangible way to our communities, because they are a central part of our community, our Scouting units. It's called the National Good Turn Project. It started in February of 2004, and it began to track all the things that we knew Scouting has done for a hundred years of the amount of hours of community service. I remember washing a lot of fire trucks when I was 11 years old. Only later did I find out my Scoutmaster was fire chief. But that was good training for community service.…”