Political Quotes

“as we look upon our life in the Senate, it is, indeed, a privilege for those of us to serve with our distinguished colleague from Hawaii. I, too, am a member of the generation of World War II, having joined the Navy in January of 1945. My modest service to country pales in comparison to that of our distinguished colleague from Hawaii, as it does in comparison to that of our colleague from Alaska, Senator Stevens, Senator Hollings, Senator Thurmond, Senator Helms, and Senator Cochran. I think we in this Chamber are the last of the few of that generation. I had hoped today and had scheduled to join the President of the United States aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise in Norfolk, VA, together with my junior colleague, Senator Allen. We, as our colleague from Hawaii, will be at our duty stations here in the Senate today. But I never let this day pass without my own recollections of that period as a very young man at age 17, as I say, entering the Navy and what the military did for me to enable me to achieve my goals in life. The GI bill was the greatest investment this Nation ever made in that generation, and I was a beneficiary of that.”