Political Quotes

“I have been doing a lot of listening over these past months. Like Americans across this country, I have been doing a lot of listening to the dedicated and passionate people, our fellow Americans, who have marched in the streets and our communities with passion, but peacefully, in their cries for justice. In fact, I have marched with them in 15 or more demonstrations in Connecticut--big cities, Hartford, Stamford, New Haven; smaller cities, Lyme, Marlborough, Trumbull, Windsor, Glastonbury; and then places like Torrington, East Hartford, Danbury--all across the State, proud to be with people from Connecticut, led by our young people, as are many great social movements and revolutions of our time led by young people who have the audacity and hope to cast aside the normal and say: There is no going back. There is no rolling back to the old normal. What we need is action That has been the common theme in these cries for justice--the demands for accountability, the pleas for an end to racism, generations of racial justice, and racism with historic roots in so many of our institutions, including some of our law enforcement. But they are demanding more than just our listening and more than just our speaking. They are demanding action--real action, real reform, real change with real teeth and new laws. The time has come for us in this Congress to heed those calls.…”