Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I have had the great privilege of serving in Congress with Senator Richard Lugar. He was in the Aspen Institute, and I visited with him on those occasions, and received an award from the American Bar Association the same day he did, as did John Lewis, which made it more important than any other reward I have received. Richard Lugar's loss is a great loss to this country. He worked in a bipartisan fashion, and worked with President Obama on nuclear proliferation treaties and on the approval of Supreme Court Justices. He said, last night, we are experiencing days of political division in our society. These divisions have stalemated progress in critical areas. They have, indeed. And unless the Republican side works with the Democratic side in a bipartisan fashion, we won't be successful, as Richard Lugar tried to do, and was defeated for doing it. There's something wrong in the constituencies that don't realize that progress is made by parties working together, not by one party conquering the other. ____________________”