Political Quotes

“I want to thank my colleagues from Oregon, Senator Wyden, for his remarks; Senator Merkley, for his leadership on the bill; and Senator Baldwin from Wisconsin, for her extraordinary leadership and service to our country. It is a great privilege to be here today. My friend Cory Booker from New Jersey has been fighting for these issues for his whole career. Who knows, as I know, that anyone who studied the history of our democracy knows it has always been hard to make progress. This struggle has always been a battle of our highest ideals and our worst instincts as a country. It has been true since our founding, when the same people who wrote that ``all men are created equal'' also perpetuated human slavery and denied equality to so many others. In fact, I don't think it is too much to say that our history is a story of our struggle with that contradiction between the promise of equality and the reality of inequality in America--between our highest ideals and our worst instincts. We struggle with that today. Since he took office, over and over, President Trump has called on our worst instincts in almost everything he has done, including his attacks on access to healthcare, housing, and education for LGBTQ Americans.…”