Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Barry, we are going to miss you. Everyone has been rightly singing your praises. I will tell you the couple of things I noticed right away. When I came, it was 2007. Many of the Members who have spoken have been here many years longer. When you went into the cloakroom, you were treated like you had been here forever. Everybody was treated the same. The goodwill, the good sense of humor, the good judgment, the sense that we are all part of something larger than ourselves--that was something that Barry really conveyed. The other thing I noticed, we used to have pages here. Remember that? We had these young people full of hopes and dreams about how they could make a contribution in this country, how they could make this a better country, how they could be better people. Barry, it was amazing to watch you with those kids because you had to get them organized. They had to learn all of our names. They would be sitting there in the cloakroom studying the Congressional Pictorial, and these young kids from all over the country would be coming up, and they would be saying hi to Mr. Miller, to Mr. Welch, to Mr. Capuano, and it was such a reassuring observation, such a wonderful scene there where these kids--boys and girls--felt that they had a big job in a big institution.…”