Political Quotes

For centuries, Black Americans have been denied the right to define our own existence. How we live, how we work, and how we raise our children have been judged, appraised, scorned, and dismissed. To this day, we must fight back against…

This feels to me, and I imagine many others, and to many Americans, as a huge blind spot in the law.

It is an unfortunate reality that hypocrisy has become a guiding principle of the leadership of this body. Three times we raised the debt limit under the previous President. Those three times the American people never once had to worry…

Mr. Speaker and our two hosts, I rise today to join the Congressional Black Caucus in celebrating Black History Month and honoring the Divine Nine, the historically Black fraternities and sororities that have fostered generations of bold…