Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it is a bittersweet day as our vice president of our current Prayer Breakfast experiences the loss of his son, and we, all this week, will mourn and grieve and pray and just yearn for that family and the loss that they have experienced. But it is a great day that we can recognize ``Sonny'' Montgomery, and I know ``Sonny'' would also want us all to pause and reflect and share with the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Stupak) and his family as they have lost B.J., their 17-year-old son over this weekend. But I knew of General ``Sonny'' Montgomery long before I got here, and I am now in my sixth year, and I was blessed recently with the House Members asking me to serve as their president. But I knew of ``Sonny'' and the great tradition that he brought from Mississippi because I went to the same prep school, which was a military school, the great McCallie School, in Chattanooga, where political leaders like Governor Carroll Campbell and Senator Bill Brock and Senator Howard Baker and General ``Sonny'' Montgomery went to school, and business people, the likes of Ted Turner, a great tradition. ``Sonny'' went there. He was raised up right. But he comes every week. Thursday morning, folks, for an hour is a sacrosanct set aside time.”