Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in full support of the Republican fight against the woke, progressive agenda. The Committee on Education and the Workforce is proud to lead debate on the Protecting Americans' Investments from Woke Policies Act, or H.R. 5339, a bill that would confront and dispatch one of the most nefarious and hidden forms of wokeness. Wokeness comes in all shapes and sizes. It is a problem when it is pushed at your local public school. It is an existential threat to the country when it is pushed by the institutions that police how we think, what we say, and where our money goes. Wokeness destroys everything it touches, including the value-neutral institutions that America used to take for granted. First, wokeness conquered academia. Then, it conquered the media. The final frontier of the woke mind virus is the banks and capitalism itself. You may say, what? Banks are woke? They are driven by things like profit motive and the markets. Well, we need to think again. Under the guise of a practice known as environmental, social, and governance investing, or ESG for short, banks are responsible for woke social engineering on a scale that history's authoritarians could only dream of. In essence, a big bank or asset manager will take your hard-earned pension or 401(k) and invest it in radical, progressive causes. These ESG funds exclude businesses deemed insufficiently woke.…”