Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge the passage of my bill, H.R. 5349, the Crucial Communism Teaching Act. My legislation will develop a curriculum on the real, brutal history of communism and provide States with the resources to implement it from kindergarten through the end of high school. This bill is crucial at this hour for the health of our Nation. Why is that, Mr. Speaker? It is because America's youth has been brainwashed by media and academia for the last 30 years to believe that communism is good. What a travesty. What a horror. Ask my parents and my community if that is true. I am just going to bring you some proof, Mr. Speaker. Nearly 40 percent of Gen Zers and millennials think that ``The Communist Manifesto'' written by Karl Marx is a better defense of freedom than the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson. Just picture that, Mr. Speaker. Jefferson and Karl Marx, for 40 percent of Gen Zers, Marx wins over Jefferson. What a problem we have in this country. The Declaration of Independence, as we all know, gave birth to the longest and most prosperous democracy in the world, ours, and that is why we have to preserve it through this bill. More than one-third of millennials approve of communism because they do not know what they are talking about or what this is all about. They don't know that communism has claimed over 100 million lives all over the world, making it the deadliest ideology known to mankind.…”