Political Quotes

“I was just walking back to my office and I saw on the video this memorial service, this celebration of life, and I wanted to come listen. It has been inspiring for me, so many appropriate remarks made about this great man. I feel privileged just to stand here at the podium where he spoke and next to his photograph just as I felt privileged to know him and become a friend, and where we spoke over here when he was in the wheelchair and in the Speaker's lobby before votes and during votes. When I was home this weekend, more people came up to me in Memphis, and people on social media, and expressed their condolences, their appreciation of his life and their knowledge that the Congress had lost a person who was irreplaceable. Elijah Cummings was one of the great people that I have had the opportunity to interact with in my life, in Congress, and in other places. Truly, a giant has fallen. He had grace. He had knowledge. He had judgment. He had character. It has been spoken, and I remember seeing him on television walking in Baltimore at some risk to himself, during the riots, to help bring calm to Baltimore, leadership where he put his community first and his safety second. He talked about: We are better than this. Well, we are better than this, and, hopefully, one day, we will be as good as him. He knew that we were only here for a minute and you should make that time worthwhile, and he made it worthwhile.…”