Pipe Welder Quotes

I looked enviously at the over-head bead Popov had been laying in the bleeder pipe. It was as nearly perfect as I ever saw. Popov was a crackerjack structural steel welder, as good as or better than any of the men I had learned from in the General Electric plant in Schenectady.

This is about more than our politics and our laws. This is about who we are, how we carry ourselves. In the quiet moments today, we might hear some quiet echoes from the past. The shout of the welder in the din of the great Clyde shipyards; The speech of the Mearns, with its soul in the land; The discourse of the enlightenment, when Edinburgh and Glasgow were a light held to the intellectual life of Europe; The wild cry of the Great Pipes; And bacck to the distant cries of the battles of Bruce and Wallace. Wisdom, Justice, Compassion, Integrity. Timeless values. Honourable aspirations for this new form of democracy, born on the cusp of a new century. We are fallible. We will make mistakes. But we will never lose sight of what brought us here: the striving to do right by the people of Scotland; to respect their priorities; to better their lot; an to contribute to the commonweal. I look forward to the days ahead when this Chamber will sound with debate, argument and passion when men and women from all over Scotland will meet to work together for a future built from the first principles of social justice.