Katie Porter: “Let me say something that I know that they will not like to hear, but I personally do not believe that we should every…”

“Let me say something that I know that they will not like to hear, but I personally do not believe that we should every hear in this Chamber the kind of language that divides us. It is wealthy against working people, over and over and over again in their vernacular; and I do not believe that is what this country stands for or what we believe in. It is not a crime to work hard and become a wealthy person. In fact, I would say that universally Americans accept the principle that they value the opportunity to do exactly that. That is what they want to do. And I think this divisive language of setting class against class and saying over and over again that it is one group against another is really not what we ought to be engaged in in debate here, ever. We ought to talk about the principles that we believe in, and the policies that advance those policies. I do not think we believe in class warfare, and I do not think we believe in dividing people by economic means.”