Political Quotes

“the tendency here in the Senate often, when Democrats are lodging a complaint about Donald Trump, is for our Republican colleagues to issue an argumentative equivalency: Well, Donald Trump did this, but so did Joe Biden. Donald Trump did that, but Joe Biden did this. We are at a moment today, though, in which there is no argument of equivalency. And, in fact, over and over again in the past year, we have seen threats to our democracy that have no historical precedent. We must be able to agree that never before in the history of the Senate has a President of the United States sought to jail Members of this body based upon their political opposition to the President of the United States. All that our colleagues did was record a video in which they simply repeated the law of the land, the existing military code. They said things into a camera that the current Secretary of Defense has said himself, almost verbatim. But because he was reciting, because she was reciting a portion of the military code that the President objects to, because it was inherently a criticism of the President, they are now facing down possible indictment. It doesn't really matter that the grand jury refused to indict because, if they continue to come back over and over again for an indictment, they will likely find, at some point, some compliant grand jury, and we will find our colleagues headed to jail simply for exercising their free speech.”