Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today I wish to recognize the service of a former colleague and our current Vice President, Joe Biden. Joe was born in Pennsylvania but moved with his family to Delaware when he was 13. He left Delaware for brief stints at St. Helena School and Syracuse University Law School, but he has always returned to Delaware, including the daily trips he made home during his Senate career and the regular trips he makes home to this day. Because of his devotion to Delaware, Joe quickly got his start in politics, first on the New Castle County Council and then in the U.S. Senate, where he became the fifth youngest U.S. Senator in history in 1972. He also has the distinction of being Delaware's longest serving Senator. I worked with Joe on many different issues during his time in the Senate and served on the Foreign Relations Committee when he was our chairman. Joe is known as a foreign affairs expert, and he has many reasons to be proud of the work he has done in that area. One of those things that we worked on together was the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. I remember being at the 2003 State of the Union speech when President Bush said, ``We're going to put $15 billion into an AIDS effort.'' That shocked all of us who were there. It was a lot of money. But we worked together to develop a bill that passed the House and Senate unanimously.…”