Political Quotes

“Thank you so much, Paul, for those words and for your friendship and for your leadership and for being someone who I can talk to confidentially. You mentioned my mother. Actually, when she was giving birth, she needed a C-section. They would not admit her to the hospital because she was Black. The bottom line is she almost died in childbirth. The bottom line is I almost didn't get here. I almost didn't breathe. My mother almost died. That is where my fight for women's health, for justice, for gender equality began--at birth. Thank you for that reminder, Paul. Bobby Scott is another Representative who is a great leader, who supports and puts forth policies to help our working men and women, the middle class and low-income people, to really grow the middle class by moving into the middle class. He is also somebody who cares about our young people, education, HBCUs, minority-serving institutions. He is really a man of all seasons. I just want to thank him. He represents another part of my family in Virginia. Paul Tonko represents one part of the Lewis family in New York, and Bobby is my family's Virginia Representative. Thank you again, Bobby.”