Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. One of the sad things that is happening in America, Mr. Speaker, is that the truth is so often being perceived as fake news or that fake news is so often being perceived as the truth. Mr. Speaker, I am old enough to have worked for a United States Senator during the civil rights era. And I would get a publication-- because I opened the mail; I had a hifalutin job--from what was called the Cross and the Sword, a publication that came somewhere from the South. I forget where its headquarters was. I remember reading how the Bible told us that we should not integrate America and that if God had wanted us all to be together, then we would be the same color. I perceived that then and I perceive that now as absurd. So I proudly rise in support of H.R. 5, the Equality Act, and congratulate Mr. Cicilline and all those who have worked on getting this bill to this point on this floor. We passed it before, of course, and sent it to the United States Senate. They ignored it, to their discredit. The House passed this bill last Congress with bipartisan support. I hope we have bipartisan support this year because I remember, Mr. Speaker, back in the days of the early sixties and mid-sixties there were giants in the Republican Party who stood with Democrats on behalf of civil rights.…”