President Joe Biden will now forever hold the distinction of having served as president during one of the greatest rollbacks of access to the polls in recent American history.

We`ll be asking my Republican friends in Congress in states and cities and counties to stand up for God`s sake and help prevent this concerted effort to undermine our election and the sacred right to vote. Have you no shame?

It`s no longer just about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. It`s about who gets to count the vote, who gets to count whether or not your vote counted at all. It`s about moving from independent election…

I`ve said it before. We`re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That`s not hyperbole, since the Civil War.

We're going to get this done.

this is not a problem that can be solved without Congress, because the courts have taken our laws so far off track.

we have run a 40-year experiment and it has really failed. America is worse off on so many fronts.

Let`s think about the past election. A 102-year-old woman in Arkansas who voted for the first time on the very spot she once picked cotton, a 94-year-old woman in Michigan who voted early and in person in her 72nd consecutive election. You…

In America, if you lose you accept the results, you follow the Constitution, you try again. You don`t call facts fake and then try to bring down the American experience just because you`re unhappy. That`s not statesmanship. That`s…

Just remember, our late friend John Lewis said, freedom is not a state, it`s an act. Freedom is not a state, it`s an act. And we must act and we will act for our cause is just.

In 2020, democracy was put to a test, first by the pandemic, then by a desperate attempt to deny the reality, the results of the election. With recount after recount after recount, court case after court case, the 2020 election was the…

The assault on free and fair elections is just such a threat, literally. I've said it before. We're facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.

In America, if you lose, you accept the results, you follow the Constitution. You try again. You don't call facts fake, and then try to bring down the American experiment just because you're unhappy. That's not statesmanship.

The big lie is just that -- a big lie.

We call on the government from Cuba refrained from violence their attempts to silence the voice of the people in Cuba.

It puts the burden back on Congress to restore the voting rights act to its intended strength. As soon as Congress passes the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Advancement Act, I will sign it and let the whole world see it. That…

We`re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That`s not hyperbole. The 21st century Jim Crow assault is real. It`s unrelenting. And we`re going to challenge it vigorously. The big lie is just that, a big lie.

No other election has ever been held under such scrutiny and such high standards. The big lie is just that, a big lie. The denial of full and free and fair elections is the most un-American thing that any of us can imagine, the most…