Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I join my colleagues on the floor this morning to pay tribute to Senator Feinstein and to remember her warmth, her generosity, her kindness, and the way she really loved to elevate women. It didn't matter what your party was; it didn't matter where you came from; when you achieved, she loved to recognize that. As I came to the Senate from the House and in being the first female from Tennessee to serve in the U.S. Senate, she talked about the likeness of that experience for her as breaking barriers and being the first female mayor of San Francisco and being the first woman from California to hold a seat in the U.S. Senate. So I always appreciated that she pushed forward with elevating women and encouraging women. Of course, as we all know, she loved to gather the women of the Senate together for dinner or for a photo to make certain that we recorded our gains here in the Senate and that we had a place to share our stories of what we were experiencing, because we all know there were times that she had incurred different unkind words from people who thought that she should not be in that position. So we appreciated that of her. I really enjoyed the opportunity to work with her on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She and I spent quite a bit of time working on issues that pertained to our Nation's creative community. This was a community that she truly celebrated. She loved the fact that people could create a song out of a thought or a few words that they heard.…”