Emanuel Cleaver actually said...

I don't want to be speaker, I don't want to be assistant speaker, I don't want to be the person in charge of trash, whatever.

Cleaver expresses his desire to focus on housing issues rather than leadership roles.

10/11/2017

More Emanuel Cleaver Quotes

This body and Washington always overreacts to everything.

It is irrelevant about whether or not it is a difficult case to make; it is the allegation that does the damage.

All that is needed is for somebody to make an allegation.

Thank you for allowing me to provide testimony on the tragedy that occurred in my home State and throughout the Midwest this past summer.