Pete Sessions: “I want to share my thoughts about Jon Corzine. He had a great record at Goldman Sachs. I didn't really know he was a…”

“I want to share my thoughts about Jon Corzine. He had a great record at Goldman Sachs. I didn't really know he was a farm boy. That is something Senator Durbin added to the mix. I think I had heard that but had forgotten it. He was successful in the financial world in an extraordinary way. He was a marine. Of course, every marine I have known has been shaped by that, and I believe Senator Zell Miller wrote a book saying that everything he ever needed to know he learned in the Marine Corps, or something to that effect. Jon Corzine has been an active Member of the Senate. I remember the time we spent together in Montgomery, AL, on a civil rights trip. We were at the church that Martin Luther King preached in on Dexter Avenue, the Dexter Avenue Church. We had a discussion at that time about Rosa Parks, whom we have just honored and who recently passed away. At that very site, Martin Luther King led the efforts of the bus boycott that ended the concept that a person must go to the back of the bus because of the color of their skin. Jon Corzine didn't have to go to Montgomery, but he was interested in those issues and he believed strongly in equality and civil rights. Senator Corzine has been a strong advocate for the Democratic Party and its principles, heading its campaign committee. We didn't agree on those issues, but he was always courteous and professional. I cannot remember a single harsh word that we have had.…”