Barbara Jordan: “We are here for one simple reason: The commonsense question of asking citizenship on the census.”

I would be the last person to claim that our Nation is perfect, but as a Nation we have a kind of perfection in us because our founding principle is universal. We are all created equal. People come from all over the world to take us up on…

What the people want is simple. They want an American as good as its promise.

Common Sense would be revolted if we engaged upon this process for petty reasons.

I cannot understand at what universe our leaders would not want to know who's a citizen and who's not.