Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank him for his enthusiastic defense of the Constitution of the United States. Madam Speaker, I rise to join my colleagues to uphold the Constitution and defend our democracy once again. The House and the Senate came together, in great unity and bipartisanship, to pass Congressman Joaquin Castro's resolution to reject the President's lawless power grab, yet the President chose to continue to defy the Constitution, the Congress, and the will of the American people with a veto. At the birth of our democracy, amid revolution and war, Thomas Paine wrote that ``the times have found us.'' Once again, the times have found us to defend our democracy. The times have found us to restore the Founders' vision of balance of power, checks and balances, coequal branches of government, and restore Congress' role as Article I, the first branch; Article I, the legislative branch. The times have found us to honor our oath to support and defend the Constitution and protect the American people. We all know that the heart of our Constitution, the beauty of it all, is that we have a system of checks and balances. Our Founders did not want a monarchy. That is what they had rejected. They wanted a democracy: coequal branches of government to act as a check on each other.…”