Political Quotes

“I rise to pay my personal respects to my leader and my mentor for the past 14 years. I say 14 years, even though I am only in my 6th term, because if it were not for the gentleman that we are honoring tonight, I probably would not be here. Back in the mid 1980s when my colleagues in Delaware County suggested I consider running for Congress, I said, what does this entail? They said, we want you to go down to Washington and meet with this fellow named Joe McDade. Now, I had heard of Joe's name and his reputation, but I had not had the honor to meet him. I came to Washington and met with him. He gave me some very wise advice about campaigning and what it would take to win the seat, and while I did not win the seat that year I lost by 400 votes out of 249,000, I did come back the following year and, winning by 60,000, Joe took me under his wings. It was Joe McDade who got me a seat on the Committee on National Security because Joe was our point person on the committee on committees. And it was over the first few years in that committee that I saw Joe McDade as a leader, not just on behalf of Pennsylvania, and not just on behalf of national security, but a leader on behalf of this country.”