Political Quotes

“Time and again, we did things here that were difficult politically--difficult politically--to fight for the young people. I just want to thank all of the Senators on both sides of the aisle who were a part of moving this issue forward. They did it at great political risk. I can remember, as sure as I am standing here, watching one of my Democratic Senate colleagues walk down and vote for the Dream Act, return to her desk in the corner, put her head down and sobbed, realizing that she had probably cost her own reelection with that vote. Over and over again, people stood up for these young people. This morning, minutes ago, the Supreme Court brought a smile and a sigh of relief to more than 700,000 young people in the United States of America. This morning, the Supreme Court ruled that the September 2017 rescission of the DACA Program by the Trump administration was to be stricken as arbitrary and capricious. So what does it mean? It means, for these 700,000 DACA-protected individuals, that they can continue to live, to work, and to study in America without fear of deportation for the moment. DACA, of course, is a program created by President Obama in 2012. It was a program that was, frankly, our answer to the failure to enact the DREAM Act as the law of the land.…”