US Presidency
2021

But we’ve got to give them support. We have got to give them the backbone to do what we know has to be done. Because I doubt whether any of you would be here if you didn’t care deeply about this. You sure in the devil didn’t come to hear me speak. But I really mean it. I really mean it. Let’s not give up, man. Let’s not give up. As the old saying goes, “Hope springs eternal.” I know we’ve talked a lot about famous people, but I’m—my colleagues in the Senate used to kid me because I was always quoting Irish poets. They think I did it because I’m Irish. They think I did it because we Irish—we have a little chip on our shoulder. A little bit, sometimes. That’s not why I did it; I did it because they’re the best poets in the world. You can smile, it’s okay. It’s true. There was a famous poet who wrote a poem called “The Cure at Troy”—Seamus Heaney.