On the public record
Every politician on the site, every statement on file. Search, filter, and read the public record.
65,700+·quotes on file
And it made me think about our cities and communities all around this country, how not only do we still have scars from that riot and the 'quiet riots' that happen every day—but how in too many places we haven't even taken the bullet out.
This disaster was a powerful metaphor for what's gone on for generations.
Much of what we saw on our television screens 15 years ago was Los Angeles expressing a lingering, ongoing, pervasive legacy—a tragic legacy out of the tragic history this country has never fully come to terms with.
Look at what happened in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast when Katrina hit. People ask me whether I thought race was the reason the response was so slow. I said, 'No. This Administration was colorblind in its incompetence.'
A few weeks ago, I attended a service at First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the LA Riots. After a jury acquitted 4 police officers of beating Rodney King—a beating that was filmed and flashed around…
In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. With a uniting faith, with a God powerful enough to empower us—we can take the bullets out.
Ministers, it's time to unite behind our faith and help all of God's children around the world and here at home realize that we are all surgeons. Our faith, the word and his will are the instruments we need to take the bullets out.
We can diminish poverty if we approach it in two ways: by taking mutual responsibility for each other as a society, and also by asking for some more individual responsibility to strengthen our families.
So what's stopping us? What's stopping us from taking these bullets out and rebuilding our families, our communities, our nation and our faith in one another? What's stopping us from seeing the light and the way and the faith that unites…
If we want to stop the cycle of poverty, then we need to start with our families.
The leaders in Washington have forgotten President Kennedy's call to remember that 'here on Earth God's work must truly be our own.'
This journey teaches us that they are going to keep driving that wedge; they are going to keep the distraction going.
And I promise you this—this health care plan will be signed into law by the end of my first term in office as President.
We understand it because we get the sense today that politics has become a business and not a mission.
If too many of our kids don't have health insurance; it's time to take the bullet out.
Are we our brother's keeper, our sister's keeper?