Political Quotes

“Madam President, I want to begin where my colleague, the Senator from Illinois, left off, which is thanking Senator Booker, the Senator from New Jersey, Senator Harris, CBC, and the people protesting around this country for bringing us to this floor at this moment to demand urgent change. I am pleased to be joined by my colleague from the State of Maryland, Senator Cardin, from across the Potomac River, Senator Kaine, and, of course, Senator Durbin from Illinois. We are here because, like those millions of Americans taking to the streets around the country, we understand that this is a moment when we must turn the pain into progress. We must transform the pain of George Floyd's death and the unjust deaths of so many other Black Americans into deep and lasting change. We must bring the passionate pleas of the protesters across the Nation to the floor of the Senate to take action to root out systemic racism in all its ugly forms This is a deeply ingrained problem, and it is clear that tinkering around the edges is not enough. Systems embedded with racism need to be overhauled. The State in the form of the police cannot be allowed to continue unjustly taking the lives and liberty of Black men and women. We must change the nature of policing. We need to change the culture. Here in the Senate, we must change laws to compel changes in culture.…”