Political Quotes

“Thank you. I want to thank my good friend, Joe Barton. It was a great game last night, not exactly an ``eking'' game. Cedric came within five outs of pitching a no hitter, something I have never seen in the 17 years I have been involved in the game. But in addition to that, he had a group of men and women behind him that made every play when we needed to make them, had 15 hits and played almost error-free baseball--one error. When you can get away with making just one error in this game, good things are going to happen. As you know, this is a best-of-five series, and we are currently in series 13. We had gone into the series with a 2-0 lead, so we needed one more victory to retire the Roll Call Trophy. Rather than string this thing out for too much longer, we decided to finish it last night. Our guys played a great game, but the real winners last night were our charities, the Boys and Girls Club of Washington, D.C. and the Washington Literacy Council. We were able to raise a record amount of money for those organizations, over $150,000 for those groups that are doing really good work with our young kids in Washington, D.C. We had 7,100 people at the game, and I would venture to say that is a bigger attendance than the Nats get on some occasions. So it was a well- attended game. Series 13, the coveted Roll Call Trophy has been retired finally by the Democratic Party. Congratulations.”