Political Quotes

on a hot day in the summer of 1776, delegates from across the American Colonies gathered in Philadelphia to cast off the yoke of tyranny and assert the fundamental right of self-government. At that moment, when our Republic was born, our…

For the past 2 years, this country has been held in the grip of an unprecedented economic crisis. The housing market collapsed, the bottom dropped out of Wall Street, and for the first time in generations many Americans felt their…

So if I have got a bad knee and I am living in Chicago or even Carpenter, Illinois, and I got $20 a month in Chicago and $20 a month in Carpenter, that is what you are saying.

I come to the floor today to speak about justice and the Department of Agriculture. Let me go back a few years. Though civil rights legislation in the 1960s was supposed to have outlawed racial discrimination, at least on the Federal…