Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this is just one piece of evidence that none of us saw prior to this moment that would have provided important back up to Dr. Ford's testimony. I don't know why this person wasn't interviewed who can testify that Dr. Ford told him of this abuse before Judge Kavanaugh was placed on any shortlist. I don't know if the FBI made their own decision not to talk to this individual, whether they were time-limited so that they were unable to get to him or whether the White House told them whom they could interview and whom they couldn't, but this would have been really important information for us to have beforehand. I will end where I ended the other day. All of these decisions that have been made, I think, have long-term consequences for this body. I am not saying that we can't recover from this. We are all adults. I do believe that everybody here in the Senate believes in this place and wants it to be better. I don't run into many people on either side of the aisle who are having a lot of fun these days, given the fact that we can't get along on almost anything except for the budget, which is not insignificant. So I have to trust, as a relatively new entrant to this place, that we can do better, that we can try to learn from what has happened here. The damage has been done at this point to survivors of sexual assault who are going to be thinking twice about coming forward because they are not going to be believed.…”