if we have a Shia-only government and military, it is not sustainable, and that is in some ways what created the vacuum.
The world is looking to us. And we need to lead.
Nobody should underestimate how hard it is to deal with this crisis.
Every approach that has been explored... have been rejected by opponents for those who seek to block the ability of Dist...
Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
It is much easier to become a State.
It is hard to explain to anyone why a nation that sees itself as a beacon of democracy keeps the more than half-million ...
I have come to the conclusion that this is the only viable option that guarantees the right to vote for District of Colu...
I may just do a quick segue here, I am a huge baseball fan.
I think equality is a prerequisite to democracy, and any other solution that does not give us full equality, I think, is...
We are not looking for special treatment. We are looking for the same treatment that every State has.
It is incumbent upon those of us who enjoy the right and privilege of full voting rights to take up the cause of our fel...
Our democracy can no longer tolerate it. Our government can no longer support it.
Thanks for being here today and for your leadership of the control board all those many years ago.
We pay taxes, we serve in the armed forces, we do everything that other citizens do, if necessary die in foreign wars, b...
The bill I introduced is the latest chapter of that ongoing effort.
I think it is high time that you brought attention to this outrageous situation that citizens of the District of Columbi...
We had no pension fund, we had no cash management system.
