Political Quotes

“almost 6 years ago, I stood here on the Senate floor--I was not yet a Member of this body--and spoke as a House Member leading President Trump's first impeachment. "We are not enemies," I said, quoting Lincoln, "but friends. We must not be enemies." "If Lincoln could speak those words during the Civil War," I observed, "surely we could say them and mean them now." In the 6 years since that impeachment, our country has only become further divided. It has become even more challenging for Americans to speak with each other, with our neighbors, even with members of our own families who have been alienated from one another. How we begin to heal our present wounds and bring about a sense of common purpose that has been lost is difficult to say, as the causes of our division are many. But I suspect, if there was a common denominator to what must be done, it begins with a renewed effort to better understand each other, who we are, where we come from, what drives us. In that spirit, let me tell you a little bit about who I am that may differ from the version that many Americans see on FOX or in the President's social media feed and what I have done to introduce myself to my 40 million new constituents because I intend to be a Senator for all Californians in the red areas and the blue and everywhere else in between.”