Nancy Pelosi

I hope people remember that the progress we made came from the very vocal participation of LGBTQ people and their allies.

Some of the things they’re doing by refusing to support clinics that meet the needs of trans kids are sinful.

When they diminish the ability of transgender people to serve in the military, they diminish our national security.

We passed it in the House again and again.

Anything that we accomplished, whether it was fighting HIV and AIDS, ending discrimination, passing hate crimes legislation, or ending ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ would never have happened without outside mobilization.

It is the courage to believe that we can make things better and do the work to make it so.

Hope is action and demands a plan.

This legislation is the most important. And we have to keep working in order to get the job done.

The release of these individuals must remain a priority at the highest level of diplomacy.

They are not forgotten.

I want people to know that you’re not a real journalist. You work for Mike the pillow man and all you do is spout untruths. Get away from me.

I don’t consider that journalism. Mike the pillow man, that’s not journalism. I don’t have any reason to talk to you.

You know what, I don’t even think you’re a real journalist. You work for Mike, pillow man?

Why don’t you get away?

And I’ll tell you to shut up again because you’re speaking lies, and I don’t have anything to do with it.

America will continue to stand for freedom, human rights and the principle that no person should be imprisoned simply for what they believe.

The release of these individuals must remain a priority at the highest level of diplomacy.

The United States does not abandon those who fight for freedom.

I rise today in strong support of this resolution, calling on the President to prioritize the release of these courageous individuals who have been unjustly detained by the government of the People’s Republic of China simply for exercising…

Because, you know, they say that these autocrats, the President of China for one, the most horrible form of torture that they can put on a prisoner is to tell them nobody even remembers them or cares about them or even knows why they are…

If we do not speak out for human rights in China because of commercial interest, we lose all moral authority to speak out for human rights anywhere in the world.

During #PrideMonth we celebrate love, freedom and the courage to live authentically.

Connie understands San Francisco, our values, our diversity, our communities and our responsibility to lead with both compassion and strength.

Congress must urgently pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore the full strength of the Voting Rights Act before this latest blow becomes fatal.

The consequences will be felt across the country: fewer voices heard, fewer communities represented and a democracy diminished.