Political Quotes

“Because it was too hard, as he explained, to try to pick out the really violent ones from the nonviolent ones. Later tonight, I am going to read through some of the very easily accessible stories of the really violent protestors. It wasn't that hard to just pick out a handful of people who literally beat police officers over the head with poles, that stuck Tasers into the necks of police officers until they had a heart attack. Like, it wasn't hard to identify those people and say: You know what? Those people should stay in jail. Those people should complete their term. The American public didn't think that he was really going to absolve everyone who invaded the Capitol and beat the hell out of police officers that day. And so the reason that it has taken a minute for the people to rise up--and, by the way, we have seen big crowds in DC, but, you know, that doesn't really mean much if there is nobody out there in the American public. Today, there were pretty big rallies in all 50 States. This weekend, there are going to be many more. It is because people, even many who voted for him--but many who didn't and just wanted to sort of respect the choice of the electorate--are now realizing that this is so much more dystopian than the first term was and a crisis that is going to immediately impact them in a real way. It is not somebody else's problem. It now seems to be my problem when a billionaire has access to my Social Security, Medicare, and tax refund data.…”