Political Quotes

“let me conclude with this thought. Dr. Blasey Ford is a profile in courage. Her name will be remembered long after many of ours are forgotten. She will be in the history books as a teacher--she is a teacher by profession--for this teaching moment for America. It is a teaching moment for all of us--for women who need perhaps that inspiration and role model to come forward and to know that they will be embraced, not rejected. They will be believed, not shunned. They will be bolstered and heeded, and their perpetrator will be held accountable. It is a teaching moment for men--all of us--that we need to do better. It is also a teaching moment for young men--high school juniors and seniors, like Brett Kavanaugh was. When he put into his yearbook that hurtful, horrible phrase about Renate Dolphin--in effect, laughing at her and ridiculing that young woman, just as he laughed and ridiculed Dr. Blasey Ford, then 15 years old, as he allegedly was on top of her, groping and trying to undress her--that laughter was the detail that continued to ring in the ears of Dr. Blasey Ford. It was the most identifiable fact about that incident, as she said yesterday: That laughter is what I hear when I see that entry in the yearbook. So to all of us men and women in America, her profile in courage should send a message. We should be proud of her, and no one should be prouder than her two sons. I say to Dr.…”