Political Quotes

“Well, I say to the gentleman, as you know, 40 years have passed since that day, and you and I have had the pleasure of living through those 40 years and living that historic moment and now serving, again, in the Congress. I was thinking on my way in this morning of the feelings that existed in the United States in 1954 as best as I can recollect them as a young man, and the feelings that exist in the United States in 1994. And although it is a larger country by almost 100 million more people, it is, indeed, a safer country because, as you recall in 1954, we were in the throes of the beginning of the nuclear era and all the threats and the insurmountable ability to suppress communism in the world and its march around the world. Korea had just ended, and we were not at all certain at that time what our future lives would lead.…”