Political Quotes

“I knew Wayne, particularly having had the opportunity to travel to the Middle East with him, and one thing that struck anyone who got to know him was how profoundly proud he was of having served in this institution. He served as an aide to Bobby Kennedy and to others. He worked in a number of political campaigns. Politics was his life. But he saw politics as an instrument to do good, to make lasting and positive change. His colleagues from Utah have talked about the environmental progress that he was able to achieve. He did any number of things in bringing diverse groups together. But I have to believe as his lifelong career pursuit, at least the latter part of his life, was dedicated to bringing about peace in the Middle East. He founded the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation. He took a great many risks, not just personally and politically, but even physically. He had tremendous courage. That courage came from the personal belief in what he was doing. He put his own safety far below the importance of what he knew needed to be done in bringing about peace and reconciliation in one of the world's most conflicted parts. He found ways to build bridges. He loved people on both sides and found that commonality and worked on that commonality.”