Political Quotes

“let me first of all thank all of my colleagues for coming to Alabama. I am very happy that we got a chance to participate in the reenactment of the Selma-to-Montgomery march. I hope, and I am certain that it did bring feelings different from what they would have felt elsewhere unless they had been with John Lewis and others on the actual march. We still march for equality in this country, and the participation of my colleagues in that march brought forth the idea that there are still things that are imperfect about this country. But the fact that all of my colleagues came and all participated let me know, and hopefully let America know, that all of my colleagues are on the job, that they are trying to make this country a better place, and realize that we still have got a distance to go. So we were very happy to have our fellow Members of Congress in the State of Alabama, have them participate in the reenactment of something that meant so much to this country and something that had our colleagues of 3 decades ago to look at themselves and reexamine the state of discrimination in this country and make changes. Because we were there, I hope we will reexamine how things are, and any changes that are necessary, we will make them.”