Political Quotes

“I have to say that there is a portion of this bill that I believe is egregious and will prevent me from voting for this bill. It is because I believe one of the most basic tenets of our freedom is justice. Looking at justice, we have to see what lies at the heart of justice. And what lies at the heart of justice is the search for the truth. If you block the truth from coming out, if you don't allow a search for the truth, you don't find justice. I worry very much about that. Throughout our history, whenever the U.S. Government has violated the trust of the American people, we have worked to regain that trust by seeking the truth and allowing for a full examination of the abuses of Government power. We can see that in the history of America. Sometimes these egregious acts take many years to uncover. I am thinking of the Tuskegee experiments. Of course, we have to go back to the days of slavery. Go back to the Jim Crow laws. Go back to the era of the Vietnam war and the tenure of J.…”