David Minge Quotes

I was a very, very good congressman.

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Either you die in Congress or you get out before you are 60 so you can still do something else.

I never envisioned retiring out of the Congress.

Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America.

I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.

One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

I can honestly say that being a United States Senator has been the honor of my life.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

Be polite to a congressman—he may be elected president.

No high qualities of statesmanship are expected from a Congressman.

The only way to get anywhere in Congress is to stay there and let seniority take its course.

The longer you're here [in Congress] the better seniority looks.

I have great respect for Senator Cochran and the years of service he gave to Mississippi and the nation. I'll do my best to measure up to the standard he set as public servant - and as a pianist.

Our dad was just a congressman for 27 years, and if you live in Washington, D.C., everybody's dad works for the government. We grew up just like everyone else.

I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.

I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.

Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

I am a very proud daughter. Obviously to be able to see this transpiring, to watch him achieve so much as a politician - and we're certainly not a family of politicians, and politics is certainly not our family business - it's been amazing.