Political Quotes

“Madam President, today I would like to remember in the Record former U.S. Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina. Senator Hagan and I served together on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, where she served both North Carolina and the United States well during her years in the Senate. We also worked together closely on housing issues affecting Americans as a result of the 2008 economic downturn and housing crisis. Kay and I served as Senate coleaders of the annual Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to historic sites of the civil rights movement in Alabama in 2013. I was honored to have her by my side along with U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia during this moving event, which culminated with an emotional crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where Congressman Lewis was beaten during the 1965 march he led there. Upon return, Senator Hagan wrote about the moment Montgomery chief of police Kevin Murphy personally apologized to Congressman Lewis on behalf of the Montgomery Police Department for the department's failure to protect the Freedom Riders while removing his police badge and presenting it to Congressman Lewis. She shared how this experience served as an emotional reminder to her of the oath she took to protect and serve the people of North Carolina. That was how Kay worked.…”