Political Quotes

“I am sure that a lot of our Republican colleagues on this floor have looked at what the Senator has been doing overnight, have looked at some of the similar speeches that I and others have given on the floor, and think that we are engaged in pretty remarkable hyperbole, right? This is the United States of America. Our democracy is going to survive forever. This is not authoritarianism. This is just a different version of democracy. But I think it is important to talk for a moment--and this will be the foundation of my question--as to how you know when you have lost your democracy, how you know when you are on the wrong side of a transition to authoritarianism. There are a lot of folks who will say: Well, listen. We are still going to have elections in a couple of weeks. We are probably still going to have elections in November of next year. Well, there are troops in Washington, DC, right now. They aren't inside the Capitol Building. We are still operating. Well, many of Trump's critics have been taken off the air, like Jimmy Kimmel, temporarily, and Stephen Colbert, soon to be permanently.”