Political Quotes

“over the course of the weekend, the Capitol will be busy. As people know, on Tuesday of this week, civil rights icon Rosa Parks passed away in her Detroit home at the age of 92. Throughout her life, she was a champion, an activist, a true hero, and has left a legacy that all of us will carry forward and pass on to our children and future generations because of that simple act--not so simple act, but that dramatic act of refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus that was the was the catalyst for that historic civil rights movement that and remade our Nation. Last night, it was our honor in this body to pass a resolution to allow the remains of Rosa Parks to lie in state on Sunday and Monday in the Capitol Rotunda. The House is expected to ratify a similar resolution today. Citizens from all around the country and really all around the globe, I am sure, will come to pay their respects. Rosa Parks will be forever etched in history as a testament to how one person with courage can literally change the world. Although shortly we will be closing, at this time, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.”