Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. President. I am honored to follow those eloquent and powerful remarks by my friend and colleague from Illinois, and I am particularly impressed and moved by his comments on young people coming across the border that deserve better from this Nation--better in the care they receive when they are here, better in the due process and the justice this country gives them once they have arrived. But I am here to talk about the Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court and to second in every single respect the remarks that Senator Durbin has just made. I went to the site of a new Hobby Lobby store in the State of Connecticut, being built in Manchester--the second in Connecticut-- where its goods and services will be available to consumers in Connecticut. It is an impressive new structure. But it was not a groundbreaking or ribbon cutting. I went there to call on Hobby Lobby to do right for its employees and for its customers in the State of Connecticut. I went there to make public a letter that I have written to the chief executive of Hobby Lobby, asking that he and his company respect the law, history, and policy of our State and also of the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court has made its decision interpreting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in giving this corporation--a for-profit entity--the right to tell its women employees that they have no access to certain kinds of contraceptive care approved by the FDA.…”