Thomas A. Garrett: “I was hoping the gentlelady had one more speaker. I was going to reserve, as we had one other speaker on the way, but…”

I believe to my very core that the best of the collective is achieved by empowering the individual.

I will consider myself a historian and some lessons are written large on the pages of history, if we are only willing to listen.

These promises of fairness manifest themselves in the uniform distribution of poverty and suffering.

I am prepared to close if the gentlewoman from Oregon would like to conclude her remarks.