Political Quotes

“I am truly honored and proud to be here today as a cosponsor of this bill. This is a bill that will protect and defend religious symbols on war memorials from Washington to San Diego. I think we need to remember that one thing that was a foundation of this country was religious tolerance. And this bill is addressing the fact that there are those who refuse to express religious tolerance and are actually after any symbol, no matter how traditionally accepted and how universally accepted by the community as a general recognition of service and devotion and memorial, that they would attack it if they could find a religious connotation in any form. Mind you, our Constitution protects the freedom of religion, not from it. But I think that this issue is one that has gone so far that we're actually talking about tearing crosses down over war memorials, and I don't think any American across the board who really believes in tolerance would support that. I'm very honored to have four plaques at this memorial in San Diego. Frankly, I have a father, a stepfather, a brother, and a stepbrother whose plaques are at the memorial at Mt. Soledad. This is a family effort. I remember as a child, my father pointing up at the cross at Mt. Soledad and that memorial that it symbolizes and said it's one of the few in the country to the men and women who died in Korea.…”