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Raphael Warnock

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Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is an American pastor and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since January 20, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Warnock is the first African American to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate. He previously served as the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, a position that has deep historical significance in the civil rights movement. Warnock's legislative focus includes issues such as voting rights, healthcare, and economic justice.

Quotes by year · 2010–20261,158 total · peak 2021 (293)
2010: 2 quotes2020: 28 quotes2021: 293 quotes2022: 112 quotes2023: 279 quotes2024: 144 quotes2025: 37 quotes2026: 263 quotes
Jan 4, 2021

Send her home. We need a senator. Fire her, and hire something who will be thinking about the people of Georgia.

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Jan 4, 2021

He's on his way out the door whether he recognizes it or not.

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Jan 4, 2021

She had barely unpacked. Had been there three weeks. When she heard about the coronavirus pandemic, rather than focusing on the folk who were sheltering in, she was focused on sheltering her own investments.

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Dec 31, 2020

When you received the private briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic, you dumped millions of dollars of stock in order to protect your own investments. And then weeks later, when there came an opportunity to give ordinary Georgians an…

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Dec 29, 2020

Kelly Loeffler made clear her priorities when she sold $3 million of her own stock while downplaying the pandemic, called unemployment relief counterproductive and then waited nearly nine months to take any action on additional relief…

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Dec 24, 2020

When you received the private briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic, you dumped millions of dollars of stock in order to protect your own investments. And then weeks later, when there came an opportunity to give ordinary Georgians an…

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Dec 13, 2020

There's a lot of stuff to do this time of year -- get the tree, done. Hang the lights. Not yet. Wrap presents. Check. But this year there's one extra thing to do. Vote. That's right. Early voting starts December 14th so make voting part of…

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Dec 10, 2020

It's suspicious when politicians come in here and talk about these kinds of values when in fact they step out of the church doors and they don't do the same thing.

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Dec 9, 2020

When you received the private briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic, you dumped millions of dollars of stock in order to protect your own investments. And then weeks later, when there came an opportunity to give ordinary Georgians an…

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Dec 7, 2020

She was only there three weeks. I'm not sure she was fully unpacked when she started dumping millions of dollars of stock trying to protect herself. She purchased that seat. It has done well for her. The issue is that the people who sold…

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Nov 12, 2020

Georgians are still wondering, who in the world is going to show up and provide COVID relief for our businesses that are closing? We're in the middle of a pandemic.

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Nov 12, 2020

I think she's been terribly consistent. Every move that she made has to do with Kelly Loeffler.

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Nov 11, 2020

I don't think voters show up to vote for politicians. And that's the problem with our politics right now. The politics too often is about the politicians. I think voters vote for themselves.

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Nov 11, 2020

I happen to think that health care is a human right, and I intend to stand up for it in the United States Senate.

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Nov 11, 2020

This is not about right and left. This is about right and wrong. And so it's quite unfortunate that once again she's sowing the seeds of division.

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Nov 11, 2020

At the end of this long count, listen, Joe Biden will be the president and Kamala Harris will be the vice president. And I look forward to working alongside them to protect people's health care, particularly those with pre-existing…

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Nov 11, 2020

My story reminds us that the American promise is very much alive, it's just slipping away from too many people. And it is those people who are on my mind and on my heart as I go to bed at night, as I visit waiting rooms and critical care…

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Nov 9, 2020

Get ready, Georgia. Kelly doesn't want to talk about why she's for getting rid of health care in the middle of a pandemic so she's going to try to scare you with lies about me.

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Oct 26, 2020

That's what the civil rights movement is about. And that's what I tried to do at my ministry. And that's what I hope to do in the U.S. Senate at this deeply divided time in our country.

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Oct 26, 2020

I believe that faith ought to bring us together, ought to cause us to be true to the highest in our humanity and, yes, even affirm the American covenant 'e pluribus unum', out of many one.

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Oct 26, 2020

Good public policy helps people live their best lives.

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Oct 26, 2020

Of course I'm deeply honored by the endorsement of President Obama and also Vice President Biden and the late congressman John Lewis. I was his pastor. But the Obama endorsement is special because when we were trying to pass the Affordable…

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Sep 24, 2020

This is not a battleground state. Georgia is the battleground state, the tip of the spear in a South that is quickly changing.

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Sep 24, 2020

People who are confident in their message don't engage in voter suppression. They trust the electorate.

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