Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Ike Skelton, the Congressman who has been serving the Fourth District in the State of Missouri since 1976. I have had the great honor of working with Mr. Skelton on the Armed Services Committee for my 14 years in Congress, and he will be leaving this body at the end of this year. And I think Ike simply embodies the best of Congress and the best of this country. I remember I was traveling with him one time overseas to visit our troops, as he did relentlessly. And he was talking with someone from a foreign country about what the highest compliment was in America. And the highest compliment in America is, ``You know, he's a good guy.'' And when you think of Ike Skelton, that is the absolute least you think of him. He is absolutely a good guy to so many people. When most of us get into Congress in the first place, it is a very, very confusing place. Thousands of issues come at you from thousands of directions. And the first thing I noticed about Ike is he always took the time, with every single one of us who came to his Armed Services Committee, to work with us and help us understand the process. In part, he did that because that's just the kind of person he is. He cares about other people to a degree that is fairly well unprecedented. He takes care of other people and cares about them. But also he cares about the military, and he cares about the Armed Services Committee.…”