Political Quotes

“reserving the right to object, I strongly disagree with Senator Lee's proposal amending what has been agreed to--not agreed to but what has gotten every single Member of the Senate but for one. I want to also say that I was on the floor about 10 days ago, I think, on the subject of this. I want the Chair and the Senator from Utah to know I didn't even mention who had objected while I was here, but it was 1 out of 100 Senators. This bill passed the House of Representatives with all but two votes. It passed with every single vote from the Colorado delegation, and we have this gamut of people in from Colorado. The bill is strongly supported by my friend Ken Buck, whom I ran against in 2010. And if Ken were here, he would say there is very little upon which we agree. I hope there is more than he thinks we agree on, but we definitely agree on this. So let me just explain why we wrote this bill. In 5 days, as the Senator from Utah has said, we are going to mark the 80th anniversary of Executive Order No. 9066, which began the forced dispossession and internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Two- thirds of them were citizens of this country, American citizens, forced out of their homes into camps by our own government--by their own. One of those camps was Amache on the Eastern Plains of Colorado, where the Federal Government detained nearly 10,000 Japanese Americans against their will.…”