We need to recognize that elections matter.

In America we recognize that each of us is made in God's image and that every single person has inestimable dignity and value.

We need to go back to critical--I am sorry--classical education, where we teach people how to think as opposed to what to think.

While our country has its faults, we have, obviously, come a long way since the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre.

America is a country that has fought to free slaves.

I don't see systemic racism. I see systemic corruption.

As Frederick Douglass stated, 'The life of a Nation is secure only while the Nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.'

We must continue to move our country forward; to remain cognizant of the past, because we learn from our history.

this is the first hearing of the Full Judiciary Committee in nearly five months, and it really is outrageous that we're not focusing on the growing humanitarian crisis at our southern border and the policies of the Biden Administration…

Today's hearing is about the Voting Rights Act, and voting, as we all know and agree, is a fundamental right in this country and, indeed, blood has been shed to secure and sustain it.

The notion that Black people must be protected from a free ID to secure their votes is not just insane, it is insulting.