Political Quotes

“Thank you for the question. This is what led me to join with many of my other colleagues, as I mentioned, including Senator Schumer, to introduce the legislation in the wake of the protests in our Nation's Capital. Accountability is also a cornerstone of the rule of law. The only way that we can aggrieve abuses of power is to know who committed those abuses of power. Listen, these troops or these riot officers were ordered to be in that space. Let's be honest that the vast majority of these patriotic law enforcement officers are trying to do the right thing. But we know, because we have seen the video, that there have been repeated-- repeated--abuses on the streets of Portland, on the streets of New York City, and on the streets of the Nation's Capital. When those occur, frankly, it should be in the interest of law enforcement leadership themselves to be able to hold those individuals accountable so that we can make sure that the blame is not ascribed to every single individual who is uniformed and on these streets, but that we hold the specific individuals, or the individuals who ordered them to take those actions, accountable. So as a broad question, Americans should want to know what agency these individuals are representing, and they should at least have a badge number attached to them so that we can make sure that individual actions have a line of accountability.…”