Elijah Cummings actually said...

"I promise you that if you try to retaliate against any of them I will do everything in my power to come after you."

"African Americans are incarcerated nearly six times the rate of whites."

"Criminal justice is personal to me. I have seen the problems that plague the system through many lenses."

"It does matter, because there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of them, and the number grows every single day."