Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank my good colleague from Arizona (Mr. Biggs) for putting this on. I really do appreciate it because it is so timely. Growing pains, I think that is what we can say we are going through is growing pains again as a nation, a nation birthed over 200 years ago. And for anybody who watched yesterday's debate, Madam Speaker, on the House floor, I think it was interesting to see the amount of, I guess, race-baiting that was coming from the other side, from my colleagues, which I found very unreasonable that, for some reason, if you are a Black man, you have to tell your children how to act with the police. My mom and dad had that talk with me, probably for good reason, too, and they said: If you get pulled over, ``Yes, sir,'' ``No, sir,'' and then when you get home we want to know what happened and why you got pulled over. I had to have that talk with my children. So that is nothing new, and I think that we sometimes overplay that. Does it happen maybe more with minority communities? Yes, I think it does, but nobody is immune to that. When I came into Congress, I got stopped multiple times to see if I had the right credentials. That has happened to me. Since we have been up here, the divide in this country has gotten so much worse, and it has been since Donald Trump has gotten elected. And people will blame the President for doing this, but we can go back to other Presidents where we have seen this happen. We are Americans. We need to come together as a nation.…”