Political Quotes

“Madam President, I want to thank my colleagues for working on military sexual assault. Senator Gillibrand and I and others are working on a way to handle these assaults which takes them out of the chain of command and makes sure the prosecutors get the chance to decide whether a case goes forward, and no one in the chain of command can overturn a military court that makes a decision. So I look forward to working with all my colleagues, female colleagues and male colleagues, because this is an absolute disgrace for the greatest Nation on Earth. We have to change a culture that somehow is permissive toward violence against women, and might I add men as well, when we look at the numbers. There is a lot of sexual violence against men in the military in terms of numbers--more cases against men than women--but in terms of percentages, there are more against women. It is a terrible situation. ______”