Political Quotes

“My colleagues across the aisle have asked why we are voting today to protect our democracy. The answer is as clear to me as it is unimaginable to them: for the people. This one is for the people who made today possible, for the young people who cast their first votes in 2020 and for the seniors who cast their first votes in 1966 after the passage of the original Voting Rights Act. It is for the people who, like John Lewis, put their lives on the line on Bloody Sunday and for the people who risked their lives to overcome racist voter suppression at the height of this pandemic. It is for people like my mentor and professor, the late Lani Guinier, mother of the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act. It is for the people who don't have a vote but who do have a voice. Voting rights are preservative of all other rights. But time is running out. We can still have a democracy, Madam Speaker, but only if we pass this legislation.”