Political Quotes

“I have been privileged for the last 43 years to call Chattanooga, Tennessee my hometown. Chattanooga, the word, is a derivative of a Creek Indian word which means ``rock coming to a point,'' because what those Native Americans saw there above the Tennessee River as it meanders through the foothills of Appalachia is Lookout Mountain coming to a point. They had a Creek Indian word that later became ``Chattanooga.'' If we stand on the northern tip of Lookout Mountain at Point Park, which is part of the Chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park where the Civil War was fought, and we overlook the City of Chattanooga and the Tennessee River, we literally look right down on this boot, this moccasin called Moccasin Bend. It is a peninsula that is rich, I mean rich, with human history. As a matter of fact, anthropologists say that there is not another unit in the National Park System that is as rich. They call it a constellation of human habitation through the various time periods dating back 10,500 years.”