Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I am a bit mystified about what has happened here. We had a resolution on the floor, a couple of pages, calling for justice for George Floyd and victims of excessive use of force, as well as condemning the radical idea of defunding the police. Now, the minority leader wants to offer a resolution that would immediately make the pending business of the Senate--at some distant, speculative time in the future--a piece of legislation which, if I am not mistaken, hasn't even been written and filed yet in the House of Representatives. Now, maybe it has been written in the last day or two and I am not aware that they filed that bill, but it certainly hasn't been debated and voted on in the House of Representatives. There is all the time in the world to decide what is going to be the pending business in the U.S. Senate when the Senate acts, but we have a resolution right in front of us that condemns the unjustified killing of George Floyd, calls for justice for his death and all those victims of excessive use of force, and also--since the Senate opposes the radical idea--of defunding the police. Yet, the Democratic leader, on behalf of his party, objected to that without citing a single word, a single clause, a single sentence that he finds objectionable. I assume it is because they do, in fact, want to defund the police. I know he keeps talking about rhetoric versus action.…”