Mark Warner: “If I could turn to the reference to the United Nations and the timing, I wish I were the student of history that my good…”

“If I could turn to the reference to the United Nations and the timing, I wish I were the student of history that my good friend Robert Byrd is. I remember when you took me, hand in hand, to Rome and we went to the very site of the Roman Senate. Do you remember that day? You stood there, amidst the falling rubble of that historic building--if only they would restore it to its original integrity as ever more a reminder of the strength of the Senate as a body, in State legislatures or wherever--but at any rate, what was the quote of a Frenchman who said one time: Oh, tell me in which direction the crowd is surging so I can run out and get in front and lead? Do you remember that quote?”