Political Quotes

“I wish to commend my friend from Oklahoma and my friend from North Carolina for their leadership and their bipartisanship, the bipartisan spirit of this so very important resolution. This past Sunday I joined with a multidenominational organization called Jacob in one of the largest cities in my district, the city of Joliette, and Jacob is an organization representing the churches, black and white, Hispanic, Mexican, multidenominational. We all joined together, and we marched across the city of Joliette. Republican elected officials were part of the march, Democrat elected officials were part of the march, church leaders were part of the march, and church members were part of the march. And this march, frankly, was a response to an outrage that occurred locally in the community of Joliette, IL, and that was where a newly established church which had located on the west side of Joliette, a newly established church which was majority African-American, had been vandalized. Mr. Speaker, we made very clear in our statement that there is no room for racism, there is no room for bigotry, there is no room for anti-Semitism in our community. That is the spirit of this resolution, and I ask for unanimous support.”