Political Quotes

“we have a lot to do in wrapup tonight. As we get those papers ready and bring the year to a close, I want to look back over what we have been able to accomplish and then look ahead at what we can expect. In a letter to John Adams in September 1817, Thomas Jefferson, our third President, wrote: A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. This past year has presented far more than a morsel. We have been witness to an abundance of extraordinary historic milestones, from the Iraqi elections and Lebanon's cedar revolution, the selection of a new Pope in Rome, and a new Chief Justice to lead the Supreme Court to the outpouring of generosity for the American people, first for the tsunami survivors, and then to their fellow citizens on the gulf coast. Mr. President, 2005 has been a year of outsize events. I commend to my colleagues an article that appeared in Sunday's Washington Post. It was on the continuing success of the Army in reenlisting our GIs. It appeared on A-27 entitled ``GIs in Iraq Choosing to Re-up.'' Across Iraq, U.S. soldiers on the front lines are reenlisting by the thousands. Since 2001, the Army has surpassed its retention targets by wider and wider margins each year. Conjuring up vivid scenes of daring and service, the Post reports that: On palace rooftops and pockmarked streets, GIs are reenlisting in rituals that range from dramatic to harrowing.…”