Political Quotes

“I am very pleased to be on the floor with my colleagues today and most especially pleased to be here to honor my good friend Kelly Ayotte as she leaves the Senate but does not leave public service. Believe it or not, I first met Kelly on the softball field when we were on the Congressional women's softball team. I was in the House, and Kelly was the cocaptain in the Senate. We raised money for young survivors of breast cancer. I knew then I wanted to get to the Senate to be good friends with Kelly because when you talk about being in the trenches, she was such a competitor. When you think about a team, a baseball team or a softball team, who is the toughest person on the team? Everybody wants to say the pitcher. In my view, it is the catcher. Guess who our catcher was. Kelly Ayotte was and is, and so we became good friends then. We found we have a lot of love for physical activities. We are both runners. We have run a couple of times together. We participate in the 3-mile run that we have every May that determines who is the fastest male Senator, who is the fastest woman Senator. Well, guess who the fastest woman Senator is. You got it. She just blew right by me every year so I might have hope next year. I don't know. I will have to check out the newcomers. But Kelly was always such a great competitor on the softball field, running in 5Ks, and just being around in general. As we have heard from everybody, you have served your State with integrity and passion.…”