Political Quotes

“I want to thank Mr. Yarmuth for putting together this hour. I think it is important that we recognize icons in our society and people who have contributed so much, as you well expressed, to American culture and to the thinking in our country about war, about race, and about people with disabilities. Those are three very, very major areas that Muhammad Ali had a great impact on. You related back to when you were 16 years old. I was not quite 15 years old. At that time, my family had moved to Coral Gables, Florida. We lived there from 1961 to 1964. During that period, Muhammad Ali's second home was Miami Beach and the 5th Street Gym. During that period is when Ali, as Cassius Clay, had won the Olympic gold medal--and I remember him winning the Olympic gold medal in 1960, in Rome--and when his professional career started. He probably started in Louisville, but he was quickly in Miami Beach fighting. So he was on the news all the time in Miami Beach and on the sports shows and whatever else, but always on TV and a personality in Miami Beach. My granddad gave me $20, which was a lot of money, on February 25, 1964, if I remember--and I went to that fight. I was sitting probably in the highest seat in the Miami Beach Convention Center and watching that fighting by myself. My dad wasn't so much into it, but my grandfather gave me that $20 and I went to it. I have got my docket.…”