for their admission into heaven. and he explained to them that he was naked. and he had no clothes. that he was sick. and didn t come to visit him. that he was in jail and they didn t know he was hungry, he was thirsty. basically, he was in bad shape and he went to them and they just turned him down. and as i remember the story, they looked at each other and said, no, you got the wrong people. you never came to any of us. and he said something like, if you don t understand how you should be treated, people not me, but the lesser of people like me, then you should go straight to hell. that s all that s all i remember. and so, i keep bringing it back and forth and saying that s our mission. we saw on television what they think about us as a people. republicans have named us and thank god you re our partners. and i feel so proud as i walk out of here. i d like to say that in three months, this is the first day i tried to do it without a cane. thank you. we want to thank the
if we leave here together. if we have no bad words for each other. i mean, publicly. we do what we have to do privately. but if we find out the solidarity we have someone mentioned my jewish friends. i sat next to a guy in law school. he felt so proud he wasn t jewish in terms of religion but his ham sandwiches and all the laws he had broken. but when israel got attacked he grew 10 feet tall with solidarity. because he had something left in him that he believed in. and god knows it s not just martin luther king. there s a little bit of martin luther king in all of us. if we can take the things we have done, franklyn richardson, the willingness of people to come together. the church is the only thing some people have. they believe in you. we ask in you as a congressional black caucus to believe that we all need that. we re in your hip pocket. we want to be with you. we hope at the end of this meeting you will think about adopting half a dozen of us. if we live in your distri
i think we ve been pretty clear about our outlook on that. these are things that need to be addressed peacefully. and that s the position we ve taken right along. i think that s the position of principle and practice, and the secretary of defense as i left the pentagon was talking to shangri-la and i know he ll be asked about the same thing over the next couple of days. one more. it s a great review of the u.s. defense strategy. as secretary leaves for the region, for china and india today, what do you think he will have a message for india because, as you said earlier, china is growing militarily. u.s. budget is going down, and china s military budget is going up, and china is in the region and this may be a special message for india. what do you think that u.s. and india will have do you expect any special signings between india and the secretary during his visit to india, sir? thank you. well, we have so much going on with india now that i m sure there will be a numb