Political Quotes

“I thank my great friend, the Senator from Maine. She has been so instrumental in achieving compromise in the body, whether it is in the Commonsense Caucus, when we were in shut down, or it is just bridging the gap many times and trying to find a path forward for us to legislate in the Senate. She truly is a champion in her efforts in trying to make this body work. I wish to start off by saying that as an attorney general, the whole while I was attorney general--for 8 years--there was very little activity on prostitution. When I was running for office, I visited with law enforcement--and I still have a lot of friends in law enforcement-- and I asked them: What are your challenges? Every local sheriff, especially those in western North Dakota, and every city chief of police said: We have a growing concern with prostitution. I started thinking about that. I started thinking about what that meant. Then I started looking behind what those claims of prostitution were, and I began to realize that for very many of these young women-- often children--who are in this life of prostitution, it is not by choice. This is some of the most horrific victimization that goes on in America today--the victimization of small children, the dehumanization of small children, the challenge of a recovery once they are given an opportunity to find a different path forward, the addiction that comes with it, the grooming that comes with it, and the shame that comes with it.…”