Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from North Carolina, the former Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, for yielding. I am glad that I was on the floor to hear the remarks of the ranking member, Mr. Davis. I am going to bring up a quote. I won't get it soon enough to read right now, but I will read it. David Brooks wrote a column in the New York Times and he said we were facing five crises in America. One, of course, the pandemic. He said the second crisis was the crisis of confronting racism and the history of racism and slavery and segregation in our country. The observation he made was that Americans, post-George Floyd, have been riveted on the recognition of our past and the recognition of our present, and how we need to improve the treatment and the reality of equality in America. {time} 1445 I think Brooks' observation will be proved today on the floor, Mr. Speaker, as we come together not in partisan disagreement but in unity of purpose, recognizing that our conscience and the conscience of America has also been pricked by the loss of John Lewis, who all his life fought for equality. Mr. Speaker, the Capitol Building is a sacred space for our American democracy. It is where we write our laws, inaugurate our Presidents, and say a somber farewell to great Americans who earned our respect, like Dwight Eisenhower, other Presidents, and Rosa Parks. Mr.…”