Political Quotes

“I will take a few minutes. Mr. President, I was completing my luncheon and walking through the hallway back to my office when a reporter in a very respectful way spoke with me and asked how I intended to vote on this amendment. I said I intended to vote as I have done three previous times; basically to support it, the other options. He said: What is the driving force? Is it your highest priority? And he asked a series of questions in a very polite way which really said: Stop and think what it is I am about to do and why I am about to do it. I gave him a reply which follows along these lines: I listened to the distinguished Senator from Pennsylvania yesterday referring with a deep sense of emotional pride about how his family had proudly worn the uniform of our country, and most particularly his father who was in the great Army that went over in 1917-1918 to save Europe, in World War I, and how he was severely wounded in the Battle of the Argonne. I checked my own father's record. I, of course, have it proudly on the wall in my Senate office. He served in World War I. He was engaged in several major battles. He was a doctor in the trenches and cared for the wounded. He was in the Battle of the Argonne. How do we know perhaps my father rendered medical assistance to Senator Specter's father. But those things are instilled in sons and daughters by their parents.…”