Political Quotes

“I feel like we have reached the point of redundancy here. The Congress to Campus program is a marvelous program. Those of you who have participated know and understand that. You have heard enough about it. So how do we support it? How do we enlarge it and how do we make it more successful? We have got to raise money to do it. Although Jack said that former Members are almost tighter than sitting Members, we have found a way to reach our hands in their pockets; that is, most of us do have boxes of what we might term as junk in the basement or in the attic, various memorabilia from the time when we served in Congress, items, they do not have to be quite as wonderful as that which Jim Symington gave to us, but I wanted to give you an idea. And by the way, let me tell you that we were very successful. We raised $18,000 from the auction and so even those little things that you may not think are very valuable, it all adds up.”