Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I think many of us come down here to the floor with prepared remarks because we want to be precise in what we say, but after listening to my friend from Nebraska and her remarks, I have to admit that some of the memories she has of Jim Inhofe are very similar to the memories I have of Jim. Before I go into fully prepared remarks, I just want to share with you that I don't know that anybody else has the record that Jim had of the number of snowballs that have been tossed on the floor of the Senate. Jim is one of those guys who could get away with coming in with a snowball and then looking at a young page and saying, ``Be ready to catch this when I throw it at you,'' and then, in the middle of talking about climate change and the fact that he disagreed with a lot of the new ideas, he would pick up a snowball, show it to everybody, and then toss it over to one young page, who I am sure will never forget that for as long as he lives. Jim made friends everyplace he went. Now, he had his own ideas about what things should look like and about how things should proceed--and I have to tell you that I think, in the vast majority of cases, he was right--but he also wanted to have a discussion with other people. He liked to have debate. They were friends as far as he was concerned. And you could have disagreements among one another, and you could still be friends.…”