Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, today, we remember the 6 million Jews and millions of others who were systematically murdered in the darkest chapter of human history. Last week, I had the privilege of traveling with a bipartisan delegation led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to two nations forever interlaced into the fabric of Jewish history: the first, a monument to tragedy; the second, a beacon of hope. In Poland at Auschwitz-Birkenau, we saw firsthand the painful cruelty of the Nazi regime. We walked the train tracks that transported innocent people to captivity and the gas chambers, which led to their cruel and inhumane slaughter. After our time in Poland, I, like so many Jews escaping the horrors they experienced in Europe, traveled to the Holy Land with my colleagues. In Israel, we witnessed hope, the homeland of the Jewish people. I continue to be inspired to see that such generational trauma experienced by our people could be harnessed into something as powerful as democracy. At Yad Vashem, Israel's national memorial to Holocaust victims, we participated in a solemn commemoration to those who did not live to see a homeland that would be theirs. We heard the stories of the lives lost to hate and of the men and women who managed to survive that torture. I represent one of the largest survivors of the Holocaust populations in the United States.…”