Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we just concluded a Presidential campaign. Who could have missed it? There were a lot of issues that were discussed, but one of particular interest to me was one that involves a personal effort I have made to pass a piece of legislation known as the DREAM Act. I introduced the DREAM Act 11 years ago. Things move slowly in the Senate, but this has taken way too long. It has been heartening over the years to watch the support for the DREAM Act grow among the American people. It has also been interesting to me that in the last Presidential campaign one of the issues asked of Governor Romney, as well as President Obama, pointblank, was: Are you for the DREAM Act? I guess that says quite a bit for this piece of legislation and the idea and principle behind it. When I introduced the DREAM Act 11 years ago, it was because I met a young woman from Chicago, Tereza Lee, who was Korean, who came to this country as a child, was raised in the United States, but her parents never filed the necessary documentation. So Tereza Lee was graduating from high school in Chicago, an accomplished pianist, and she had been accepted at the Manhattan Conservatory of Music in the Juilliard School of Music, but she was undocumented, she was not a citizen, she was not here legally.…”