Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, if we analyze what is happening out here in our country today, in 1997, and we really yearn, as I do, for a renewed sense of ownership from the people of our government and our country, I actually attempt, which may be thinking out of the box, to represent people who are so alienated or so hopeless they may not even be registered to vote. They may have just completely given up on the government, thinking that Washington is just out of control, it is going in the wrong directions, politicians are all the same. My colleagues know what I am talking about, because we have all met those people. Many of them just kind of brush you off. They do not want to have anything to do with you. But if we can repair that bridge, to use the President's term, with those folks, and through real change and persistence convince those people that, yes, this country is worth fighting for and, yes, we can fix any problem that we have and for a sustained period of time, I would not expect them to automatically buy into the notion that Washington is finally changing.”