Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, there was a quote from John Adams, as a follow-up to what my friend from Arizona (Mr. Schweikert) was saying. He had great exchanges with his friend, then his enemy, and then his friend again for the rest of their lives, Thomas Jefferson. John Adams said there are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword; the other is by debt. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my friend for yielding. This will likely be the last speech that I will be able to give from the House floor. I can imagine there are people clapping all over that are watching C-Span. It has been a tremendous honor to serve in this hallowed body. It just has. This was not something that I aspired to from my earlier days, and in fact, I really didn't want to be a judge. After my mother got over the disappointment of my choosing not to apply to med school, and then got used to the idea of having an attorney, she ended up, through the eighties, she knew she had a brain tumor that was going to ultimately take her life. They had done what they could at Mayo Clinic in surgery. They could do no more. She was brilliant. She put herself through Baylor in 2\1/2\ years, while she was working full-time, most of that in the registrar's office. My brilliant mom taught school as an eighth-grade English teacher for so many years and taught Sunday school for most of her years. She would say: Louie, you would make a great judge. I would go: Mother, I don't want to be a judge.…”