Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is really a very sad day in the Congress of the United States because we are ignoring the needs of children. As a mother of five children--I had five children in 6 years, so lots of little babies all around the house all the time, lots of joy--and understanding the connection between parent and child, and being a grandmother of nine now, I can't even imagine why the Republicans think it is a good idea to move forward with a bill that does nothing to unite families, to stop the separations, and to have the reuniting of families in a way that is humane--not to reunite and detain in prison, in detention, but to unite in a way that honors the humanity of America. In church on Sunday, the sermon was about not being an enemy of humanity. Some of the activities that are happening now in relation to these children are actions that qualify as enmity to humanity. What we have: 2,000 children remain separated from their parents, locked away in Federal custody and living in a state of terror and trauma. This is a picture of a little boy being confronted by an armed official. Do we have any idea what the impact is on that child? Republican leadership pushed multiple antifamily bills that would have made the horrific situation worse for children by enshrining the President's outrageous mass deportation agenda as the law of the land with his zero-tolerance policy. We should have zero tolerance for that policy.…”