Political Quotes

“I am honored to join these two eloquent colleagues who have each been champions for this cause as women speaking about the problem of sexual assault in our country--the epidemic of sexual assault that continues to be a scourge across our country. Most of my career in law enforcement, like my distinguished colleague from California, has been involved in making laws work for people and deterring exactly this kind of heinous lawbreaking. It is criminal. It is a crime, but it is one of the least reported crimes because of the public shaming and character assassination and mocking and ridiculing we have seen from men in power over just the last few days and weeks. I want to say, as a man speaking on the Senate floor--and greatly honored to do so--to other men in this country, those men in power who have mocked and ridiculed Dr. Blasey Ford cannot be our role model. Those men in power--they may be colleagues and they may be the President of the United States who have belittled and demeaned and dismissed Dr. Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez and survivors across the country--do not speak for us. I believe Dr. Blasey Ford. I believe Dr. Blasey Ford because she was credible and powerful as a witness before us in what she remembered and what she so candidly said she couldn't remember. I believe Deborah Ramirez.…”