Emanuel Cleaver

The joy, I think, now is generated by the fact that the people won this battle.

We just received a healthy dose of encouragement that the voice of people in the United States still matters.

I think my reelection prospects shot up significantly.

Tonight, after more than 305,000 Missourians demanded a say, the Supreme Court has put this shameful and unlawful scheme to rest. Power to the people.

For more than a year, state officials have spent precious time, energy, and resources on an effort to silence the voices of Missouri voters and steal a congressional seat.

Right here in the middle of the country in the sometimes-cold Midwest, where people became so upset that they did what one can do only in a democracy, and they went out and organized.

More than 305,000 Missourians demanded a say in who will represent them in the halls of Congress. Despite the cynical and deeply shameful attempt to silence many of our neighbors, the people fought back and won. This reaffirms that the…

The people fought back and won.

Despite the cynical and deeply shameful attempt to silence many of our neighbors, the people fought back and won.

We're going to run, and we're going to run hard, no matter where we are.

If I have to serve the people who live just outside of Columbia and Jefferson City, then I’ll do that.

If we think we're right, we ought to act like we are right.

We are just tearing apart a district in order to satisfy someone's desire for reelection.

Blind, and sometimes even mean-spirited, political decisions that those who perpetuate it could easily deny it.

As I sat on the bed this morning, trying to get up, I received a phone call to tell me that Congressman Bill Clay had just passed. I sat there for a few minutes, feeling sad. Then it occurred to me that death is not the greatest loss in…

We can be mad, we can cuss - we're three votes down. That's the reality.

So that's not right.

He's my friend, and he is somebody who believes deeply and irreversibly in treating people decently.

Nobody said one word to her, even though Nancy Pelosi told one of the guys, ‘Can you not see that cap over there?’

We can be mad, we can cuss - we're three votes down. That's the reality.

I think we had something with this committee that I think the people around the country of goodwill would love to see each day coming out of Washington.

This important legislation would pull one small but very powerful lever that I believe would facilitate greater collaboration in the Halls of the House.

I think it is important for us to voice our own experiences and ideas on how we can make this beautiful chaotic institution into something that would work just a little bit better.

It was rewarding to those of us who were on the committee to just come to a meeting and see that there was no name-calling, no screams across the aisle.