Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise today to honor an extraordinary Texan and an incredibly dear friend. Karon Kaye Tinsley Goolsby passed away on Monday, June 19, 2023. Kaye is someone who has been an incredible friend to me for two decades now. She lived in Katy, TX, and was married to the love of her life, Gary. Their son Greg was born in 1981. She loved her family. She loved her grandkids. Kaye was a grassroots organizer unlike any other. Kaye was incredibly active in the Texas Federation of Republican Women and in the National Federation of Republican Women. I still remember when I first met Kaye. It was 2004. It was at the Republican National Convention. I was a 33-year-old young lawyer. I was serving as the solicitor general in Texas, and I had hopes to run for office, but I didn't know a whole lot of people in politics. At that convention, I met Kaye. She lit up any room she was in. She had a personality that was incandescent. As Kaye would later observe, for some reason, this kid-- that would be me--just followed her everywhere she went. And at the end of the day, it wasn't complicated. Kaye knew everybody. When I followed Kaye from one grassroots activist to another to another, Kaye would turn around and introduce me to one after the other, after the other, after the other and say: Have you met Ted? Have you met Ted? Have you met Ted? She had the energy of an atom bomb. It was unstoppable. Kaye became one of my very closest friends and most trusted advisers.…”