Elijah Cummings: “I will remain silent on that one.”

We are better than where we are. We are better than this.

Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens.

On my mother's dying bed, 92 years old, former sharecropper, her last words were, 'Do not let them take our votes away from us.' She had fought and seen people harmed, beaten, trying to vote. Talk about inalienable rights. Voting is…

I really do think that we are in a moral situation. People are striving to live, trying to breathe the air of our country, trying to be better, trying to be healthy.