Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Jeffries) for yielding me the time. As someone who has been both a victim of police insensitivity and someone who has spent his entire life in an area known for police mistreating people, and somebody who represents the area where Emmett Till was killed and his accuser wore a badge, this notion that somehow law enforcement's activities just started is not true. But, you know, you have to walk in my shoes and the shoes of the Congressional Black Caucus to know what we are talking about. I hope at some point we can get there. I am a grandfather. The story my father told me about law enforcement, this day I am telling my grandson that same story 50 years later. Law enforcement hasn't changed. So what we have to do is if we are committed to it, we have to support this bill. The notion that the system is not broken? It is operating how it was designed, so we are going to have to fix it, and we fix it by supporting this bill.”