Political Quotes

“But I too have known Mr. Quillen's long time through Tennessee, even though I am on the opposite end of the State. He is known certainly there by reputation and for what all he has done for Tennessee over the years. But it seems to me as one of the freshmen that has come in and tried to do a lot of things here, we also are responsible to honor the tradition of this Congress and those that have preceded us, and it seems to me this year that we are losing an awful lot of people. I am not going to try to name them all, but I see Congressman de la Garza there who has been the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture; our speaker tonight, Mrs. Meyers from Kansas; people like Sonny Montgomery from Mississippi, and Tom Bevill from Arkansas and John Myers who has spoken tonight so eloquently about his friend, Mr. Quillen, and we are going to miss all of these people, but Mr. Quillen especially, being from Tennessee, is close to our heart and of course we are here to talk about him tonight.”