Emanuel Cleaver: “This is the city that attracted courageous leaders who slammed slavery into the junkpile of days gone by.”

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.

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

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

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