Political Quotes

“the rest of the world will wake up tomorrow morning and read in the obituaries about Julian Dixon's leadership on appropriations and on the Intelligence Committee and the Ethics Committee. They may figure out that he had a 100 percent perfect voting record on civil rights, on education, on the environment, on labor issues. They may find out about his funding of the tools for tolerance program at Simon Wiesenthal Center or the Angel Gate Academy for at-risk youth or any number of dozens of other things that he started in his constituency. But they will not get a full flavor for what he meant to this body, his credibility, his courage, his heroism, his decency. That is his legacy. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to express particularly on behalf of one of our colleagues, the Delegate from the District of Columbia, her longtime aide, Donna Brazile, is in the cloakroom here and just told us that Eleanor is on a plane but wishes so much that she could be here to express her sadness, her grief, and her appreciation for all that Julian Dixon has meant to the District of Columbia. D.C. grieves today at having lost one of its strongest, most committed friends, advocates, believers. Julian Dixon knew more about the District of Columbia and what needed to be done legislatively than any other Member of this body with the possible exception of its own Delegate.…”