Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Senate should demand a better nominee for the Supreme Court. These last 2 weeks have torn our country apart, but even before these allegations against Judge Kavanaugh became public, there was enough in Judge Kavanaugh's record to cause me to vote no. His record is clear. As a Justice, he will damage women's rights, civil rights, the environment, voting rights, and economic fairness. He will also damage Native Hawaiian self-determination. Let's start with Native Hawaiian. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, he wrote that Native Hawaiians didn't deserve protections as indigenous people. He wrote an amicus brief in the case Rice v. Cayetano, arguing that Hawaii violated the Constitution by permitting only Native Hawaiians to vote in their elections for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs--the agency charged with working to advocate for the Native Hawaiian community. These views come from a lack of knowledge of the history of Native Hawaiians, as well as Federal law and policies related to U.S. indigenous people. Based on nothing at all, he thinks indigenous people are just another race. In his words, ``Hawaii's naked racial spoils system . . . makes remedial set-asides and hiring and admissions preferences look almost trivial by comparison.'' He also said: ``[I]f Hawaii is permitted to offer extraordinary privileges to residents on the basis of race or ethnic heritage, so will every other state.'' This is wrong on policy. This is wrong on the law.…”