Political Quotes

Mr. President, I am the son of an immigrant from East St. Louis, IL. As a reminder to myself, I keep my mother's naturalization certificate on a table behind my desk in the U.S. Capitol. She came to the United States from Lithuania…

Mr. President, my grandparents and my mother and her two siblings immigrated to the United States from Lithuania in the year 1911. They came over on a ship from Germany to Baltimore and found their way to the city of my birth, East St…

I announce that the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 221 Ex.] YEAS--83 Baldwin Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Booker Boozman Britt…

I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 207 Leg.] YEAS--53 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins…