Political Quotes

“I rise to congratulate the Presiding Officer, who just spoke, for his stick-to-itiveness in continuing to force this issue here in the U.S. Senate and, finally, accomplishing what we had hoped to accomplish and probably should have accomplished a couple of days ago, which is at least to move to this bill and begin the debate on whether we can, here in the U.S. Senate, do some positive things to the volunteer spirit of America, to see if we can remove some of the barriers that are in place right now that limit the amount of volunteer participation in our society. I think the present Presiding Officer's remarks about the Philadelphia summit, the spirit created there, the momentum that was created there can only be enhanced. The big concern in Philadelphia, as I talked to so many people, was, ``Isn't this wonderful? Don't you feel this great spirit? Don't you feel like we are focused on the right thing and we are pulling the country together, Republican and Democrat alike, liberal or conservative, focusing on a value that we all share?''”