Marshall Sanford: “Ladies and gentlemen of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, I look forward to working with each…”

“Ladies and gentlemen of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, I look forward to working with each one of you. Republican and Democrat, different perspectives we may hold, but at the end of the day we are here to represent the people of South Carolina, and I look forward to going about that business with you. I see friends, like Eliot Engel, who were so kind to call me in the wake of the events of 2009, Democrat that he may be. I see a whole host of Republicans, long friends; and it is, indeed, an honor to be back with each one of you. I look forward to working with you on a whole host of issues. Obviously, the greatest among them for me will be efforts to get our financial house back in order here in Washington, D.C. But above all else, here on this day, I am simply humbled to be here. Each one of our lives involves different journeys, but on that journey I think that we can, in essence, be taken to places wherein we develop levels of appreciation perhaps that we never had before. And so I stand here before each one of you more appreciative than I ever could have been for the honor of working with each one of you here in the United States Congress, the Congress of the Nation most blessed of all nations here on this Earth.…”