Political Quotes

“The gentleman from Pennsylvania is exactly right. The swamp only needs to be cleaned up when the swamp doesn't agree with this President. We have seen, in the nomination of Brett Talley to Alabama's Middle District, that he did not report that his wife worked for the White House counsel. Now, this, to me, is an important disclosure. You can't be more on the inside, in the swamp, drowning in the swamp, than to have a relationship like your wife working for the White House. I think it is really hypocritical that this White House would talk about draining the swamp, and yet choose judicial nominees that are clearly in line with far rightwing views and are clearly a part of the problem, not a part of the solution. I think that we, the American people, need to really speak out when it comes to the Supreme Court nominee, and, actually, all Federal judgeships. I had the great honor of clerking for the first African American judge in the State of Alabama, Judge U.W. Clemon. It was a great honor of my life as a young lawyer to sit at his feet and to learn. And I have to tell you that it is disheartening to me to see people who are woefully unqualified getting the opportunity to be nominated to a Federal bench. These are life appointments, life appointments that allow people to sit in those seats for decades to come and, therefore, decide decisions decades to come.…”