Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Weber) for yielding. I thank all of my colleagues as we join today and we remember, as we rise in recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, memorializing the genocide of more than 6 million Jews, including 1\1/2\ million children. This year's observance holds special meaning, as it is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi death camp, where more than 1.1 million people--men, women, and children--were brutally murdered. The Nazis sent many people, including political dissidents, intellectuals, Roma, and LGBTQ people to Auschwitz; but the vast majority, 90 percent of the victims, were Jewish. Last week, I had the solemn and profound honor to visit Auschwitz with a bipartisan congressional delegation led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We walked through the gas chambers. We stood before the ovens built to burn up to 1,800 bodies each day. We visited the barracks where people slept five to a rack, three racks high. We saw what seemed like infinite piles of suitcases, shoes, eyeglasses, even human hair collected from the victims by their Nazi killers. Notably, in a place representing humanity's greatest crime, where people were denied the ability to even pray to their God, we joined with our Polish hosts to honor the memories of the martyrs by reciting the Kaddish, the Jewish mourners' prayer.…”