Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady from the Virgin Islands for, again, leading us on a very important topic, one of which that I have worked on, Mr. Speaker, for the time that I have had the privilege of serving in this House. And I would venture to say, Mr. Speaker, that I believe that if I look to this side of the House and this side, we would all hold to the view that it is important to have one vote, one person. And then we hold to the view that I have been saying, regardless of our ups and downs in the economy, that we do live in the greatest nation in the world. I say it all over, everywhere. There are too many great things that are happening in America. There are too many great men and women in the United States military. There are too many great individual personal stories of survival and small businesses and family farms. I live in a great State. And I get to see urban America. I get to see family farms, small businesses. I get to see ranchers and people who are struggling against droughts but are still hanging in there. We have, in Texas, a potpourri of the Nation. So I know that we live in a great Nation. I happen to have had the privilege of serving in a district that the Honorable Barbara Jordan first served in. This district was not created before Barbara Jordan served. And Barbara Jordan, who was an honorable Member of this House, ran many times in a segregated and southern Texas. Many of the times that she ran, she lost.…”