Political Quotes

“wow, I come to the floor of the Senate to talk about a real emergency that just occurred in my State of West Virginia. I know many of you across the country have witnessed and seen the terrible destruction from the sudden flash flood that ravaged West Virginia on Thursday in the late afternoon and evening. I come with such a heavy heart. When I hear the debate going on again about who is more cynical and who has poison pills, all I can think about is the little boy I saw at the Volunteer Fire Department in Clendenin on Friday. His dad is a fire chief, and he had been going to the fire department all the time since the time he was born. He is about 10 years old. We were standing in 6 inches of mud, with destruction everywhere in his town. I introduced myself to him, and I said: I am Shelley. I am your Senator. How are you doing? He just melted into tears because he was so distraught at what he saw, a place he loved, the fire station just ripped apart. People he knows were kicked out of their homes, trying to figure out how to rebuild. To me, that is a real emergency. That is a real something we in the Senate and those in the State and those local responders are responding to now. I think about our State, I think about all the nicknames of the State of West Virginia. The one I think I like the most is ``Almost Heaven.'' Well, ``Almost Heaven'' wasn't almost Heaven last Thursday. ``Wild and Wonderful.'' It was wild, all right but not so wonderful.…”