Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my friend bringing that to our attention. That was a great tribute to a great man from a great man. I did attend and help things out at Gilley's on a number of occasions there in Pasadena--Pasadena, Texas, that is--not far from downtown Houston. I don't know. I guess I had the look that I could ride a bull because they turned it up as high as it could go wheeling, and it was something. I got better at it, but that was tough when they put that thing on full speed, yanking back and forth. I just knew I wasn't going to ride a bull in the rodeo. Rather prophetic, too, was Mickey Gilley with one of his biggest hit songs, ``Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time.'' Quite an astute observation. But we were young then. It was interesting, hearing the colloquy exchange between Representative Scalise and Leader Hoyer, the discussion about inflation. I remember vividly the years under President Gerald Ford, and he adopted WIN and had WIN buttons, which stood for ``Whip Inflation Now.'' The failure of the policies at that point to whip inflation, along with Watergate, helped elect President Jimmy Carter, and things just got worse and worse. We lost our international standing. Countries did not respect us. Beginning in 1978, I was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia.…”