Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to denounce this sad reality: the depraved beliefs of Holocaust deniers have somehow crawled into our national conversation. What is worse is that it is occurring at a time when our government has decided to turn its back on refugees fleeing violence and oppression. What is deeply concerning is that all of this is emanating from the White House, clearly directed by President Trump's top political strategist, Stephen Bannon. Mr. Bannon was the force behind Breitbart News, an alt-right outlet that traffics anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and White nationalism. When President Trump picked Mr. Bannon as a chief strategist, countless groups condemned it. The Anti-Defamation League's Jonathan Greenblatt warned us that Bannon's views were ``hostile to core American values.'' That concern was made crystal clear by the statement President Trump issued on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, about 10 days ago. The statement inexplicably left out the defining aspect of the Holocaust--the systemic murder of 6 million Jewish people. It is crucial to understand why this global day of remembrance even takes place. The United Nations created this calendar event in 2005, partly because fewer Holocaust survivors with personal accounts of the horror they experienced were still alive. Another reason was to combat the smoldering bigotry that still attempts to minimize the death of millions of murdered European Jews.…”