Political Quotes

“I want to thank the Faith & Politics Institute and Doug Tanner for his leadership and for bringing us together. It was remarkable to visit the civil rights movement landmarks that I had never seen in person before, to learn more about the history of this country in the 1960s. It was equally remarkable to meet so many of the leaders of the movement and the foot soldiers of that movement, so many of which are still with us today, still providing leadership. It was particularly remarkable to be there with John Lewis. Many people tonight have spoken in high praise of John, and I want to do the same. Someone said it was almost surreal being there with John, and it was. For me, the surreal moment was riding in the tour bus I think between Montgomery and Selma, and watching on the television screens in the bus parts of the documentary, Eyes on the Prize, of the civil rights movement, seeing a young John Lewis being interviewed, speaking back in the 1960s, and then looking down the aisle of the bus and seeing John Lewis today moving around talking to his colleagues on that bus.”