Political Quotes

“Madam President, over the weekend, I was reflecting on the times that our Nation finds itself in today. We are witnessing the rebirth of a new civil rights movement when it comes to reforming our police departments. Americans now know the names of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Freddie Gray, and so many others. The current protests we have seen throughout the Nation and throughout the world are a direct result of an incredible leap in technology, where individual citizens and officers themselves can record interactions between police officers and members of the community in real time. But these troubling interactions between the police and the citizens they are sworn to protect and serve that we saw on video is not new, but we now have the evidence. They just happened to be caught, creating stronger legal evidence of misconduct and abuse. Today, as our Nation experiences yet another civil rights movement, this time during a pandemic, I want to share with my colleagues some words of inspiration I often turn to in times of trouble. First, in the Constitution: ``We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice. . . . '' That is the first mention in the Constitution. Let us think how we in the United States can help to establish justice, as we are exhorted to do in the Constitution, which we are sworn to uphold and defend.…”